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Old 02-08-2013
awk delete newline after other replacements

Dear All,

could you please help me to remove \n characters after all other replacements have been done as in the code below:

Code:
{

#remove punctuation and starting whitespaces
  gsub("[[:punct:]]"," ");
  $1=$1;
}
{
#print lines containing 'whatever'
  if ($1=="whatever")
  {print}
#print lines longer then 150 chars 
 else if (length($0) > 150)
  {print}
}
{
#does not work - need to get rid of all \n and then replace 'whatever' with \n
gsub("[\n]"," ");
{print}
}

Thank you for your great expertise.
 

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ISWPUNCT(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						       ISWPUNCT(3)

NAME
iswpunct - test for punctuation or symbolic wide character SYNOPSIS
#include <wctype.h> int iswpunct(wint_t wc); DESCRIPTION
The iswpunct() function is the wide-character equivalent of the ispunct(3) function. It tests whether wc is a wide character belonging to the wide-character class "punct". The wide-character class "punct" is a subclass of the wide-character class "graph", and therefore also a subclass of the wide-character class "print". The wide-character class "punct" is disjoint from the wide-character class "alnum" and therefore also disjoint from its subclasses "alpha", "upper", "lower", "digit", "xdigit". Being a subclass of the wide-character class "print", the wide-character class "punct" is disjoint from the wide-character class "cntrl". Being a subclass of the wide-character class "graph", the wide-character class "punct" is disjoint from the wide-character class "space" and its subclass "blank". RETURN VALUE
The iswpunct() function returns nonzero if wc is a wide-character belonging to the wide-character class "punct". Otherwise it returns zero. CONFORMING TO
C99. NOTES
The behavior of iswpunct() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale. This function's name is a misnomer when dealing with Unicode characters, because the wide-character class "punct" contains both punctuation characters and symbol (math, currency, etc.) characters. SEE ALSO
ispunct(3), iswctype(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU
1999-07-25 ISWPUNCT(3)
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