SPUG: itm 60 in effective perl programming

John Costello cos at indeterminate.net
Thu Feb 24 10:35:08 PST 2005


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Ben Reser wrote:
> The reason is because <> has some magical effects.  Which is why most of
> the people on this thread are really oversimplyfing things...

Speaking of <>, another option is to use 

	perl -pi.orig -e 's/\n/ /g' filename

That leaves a file named filename.orig in the directory, which may not be 
desirable.

John




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