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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers delete newline character between html tags Post 302170970 by scott1256ca on Wednesday 27th of February 2008 07:58:03 AM
Old 02-27-2008
The following assumes you want a new line after each
>
character, otherwise keep printing on the same line until you have one.

I'm calling it tst.pl
===================
#!/usr/bin/env perl
while (<>) {
chomp;
if ( /.*\>$/ ) {
print "$_\n";
} else {
print "$_";
}
}
====================

in file
tst.txt
=================
as;dkl>
asjkf
qoweiu
askldfj>
asdf>
asdf> s
askld
>
=================
produces

as;dkl>
asjkfqoweiuaskldfj>
asdf>
asdf> saskld>


Flavour according to taste.
 

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CTYPE_GRAPH(3)								 1							    CTYPE_GRAPH(3)

ctype_graph - Check for any printable character(s) except space

SYNOPSIS
bool ctype_graph (string $text) DESCRIPTION
Checks if all of the characters in the provided string, $text, creates visible output. PARAMETERS
o $text - The tested string. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE if every character in $text is printable and actually creates visible output (no white space), FALSE otherwise. EXAMPLES
Example #1 A ctype_graph(3) example <?php $strings = array('string1' => "asdf ", 'string2' => 'arf12', 'string3' => 'LKA#@%.54'); foreach ($strings as $name => $testcase) { if (ctype_graph($testcase)) { echo "The string '$name' consists of all (visibly) printable characters. "; } else { echo "The string '$name' does not consist of all (visibly) printable characters. "; } } ?> The above example will output: The string 'string1' does not consist of all (visibly) printable characters. The string 'string2' consists of all (visibly) printable characters. The string 'string3' consists of all (visibly) printable characters. NOTES
Note If an integer between -128 and 255 inclusive is provided, it is interpreted as the ASCII value of a single character (negative val- ues have 256 added in order to allow characters in the Extended ASCII range). Any other integer is interpreted as a string contain- ing the decimal digits of the integer. SEE ALSO
ctype_alnum(3), ctype_print(3), ctype_punct(3). PHP Documentation Group CTYPE_GRAPH(3)
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