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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to replace two or more spaces with one comma? Post 302780597 by Scottie1954 on Thursday 14th of March 2013 06:25:31 PM
Old 03-14-2013
Shoot, why didn't I think of that?! Worked like a magic spell. Looks like I need to learn more about the Output Field Separator. Thank you!
 

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NAME
libenchant - Enchant provides a generic interface into various existing spell checking libaries. DESCRIPTION
libenchant is a library which provides a generic interface into various existing spell checking libraries. It aims to provide an efficient extensible abstraction for dealing with different spell checking libraries. It provides a generic inter- face into various existing spell checking libaries. These include, but are not limited to: * Aspell/Pspell * Ispell * Hspell * Uspell ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-spell | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5), gnome-interfaces(5) Written by Jeff Cai, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008. SunOS 5.11 29 Jul 2008 libenchant(3)
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