[Classiccity-pm] substitutions
Stephen Howard
stephen at enterity.com
Tue May 9 12:20:59 PDT 2006
well, since this is a perl list and not a sed list I can't give you any
sed tips, but you might try something like (untested):
open my $file, '<', $ARGV[0] or die $!;
while( my $line = <$file> ) {
$line =~ s/\s+/\n/g;
print $line;
}
and then call it as
perl myscript.pl fileA > fileB
-Stephen
Linda Dubes Law wrote:
> I have a file that has a bunch of lines in it with emails. Sometimes there is one email per line and others there are up to 6 emails per line. I want one email address per line. Since there is a space between all email addresses, I thought I could do a simple substitute of the space with a new line.
>
> system ('sed "s/ /\n/g" fileA > fileB');
>
> This does not seem to work well for me. It removed the spaces but does not add the new line.
>
> Any ideas for a better way of doing this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Linda
>
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