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Old 03-15-2008
lijojoseph lijojoseph is offline
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remove leading spaces from a line

Hi friends

I need some help,

I have a file which looks as follows

TEMP 014637065 014637065 517502 517502 RTE
517502 517502 RTE
AWATER_TEST 12325 23563 588323 2323 5656 32385 23235635
ANOTHER_TEST 12 5433 FTHH 5653 833
TEST 123 123 3235 5353 353 53 35 353 535 3
YTERS GJK JKLS

when ever there is a leading space on line(here there is a space at the starting of line 2 and 6 which may not be visible in thread), I need to remove that and append to the previous line. This means I want an output file which looks like
TEMP 014637065 014637065 517502 517502 RTE 517502 517502 RTE
AWATER_TEST 12325 23563 588323 2323 5656 32385 23235635
ANOTHER_TEST 12 5433 FTHH 5653 833
TEST 123 123 3235 5353 353 53 35 353 535 3 YTERS GJK JKLS