SPUG: itm 60 in effective perl programming
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
sthoenna at efn.org
Thu Feb 24 03:06:10 PST 2005
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:37:45AM -0800, Ben Reser wrote:
> Perhaps they meant this:
> perl -pe 's/\n/ /' file
>
> tr would probably be moderately better:
> perl -pe 'tr/\n/ /'
>
> But I'd prefer the following:
> perl -pe 'chomp; $_ .= " "' file
For completeness:
perl -pe'substr($_,-1,1," ")' file
or
perl -pe'substr($_,-1)=" "' file
or
perl -pe'/\n/;$_="$` "' file
or
perl -pe'/.*/;$_="$& "' file
or even
perl -pl40w010e0 file
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