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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove extra spaces in a line Post 302245438 by jim mcnamara on Friday 10th of October 2008 06:25:21 AM
Old 10-10-2008
One way:
Code:
sed -e 's/Message Text :  [ \t]+/Message Text : /'

 

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Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation	       Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat(3pm)

NAME
Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat - Reformat plain text messages INHERITANCE
Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat is a Mail::Message::Convert is a Mail::Reporter SYNOPSIS
use Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat; my $af = Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat->new; my $beautified_body = $af->autoformatBody($body); DESCRIPTION
Play trics with plain text, for instance bodies with type "text/plain" using Damian Conway's Text::Autoformat. Converters between message objects Other converters METHODS
Constructors Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat->new(OPTIONS) -Option --Defined in --Default fields Mail::Message::Convert <see description> log Mail::Reporter 'WARNINGS' options { (all, 1) } trace Mail::Reporter 'WARNINGS' fields => NAMES|ARRAY-OF-NAMES|REGEXS log => LEVEL options => HASH-REF Options to pass to Text::Autoformat, when its "autoformat" method is called. trace => LEVEL Converting $obj->autoformatBody(BODY) Formats a single message body (a Mail::Message::Body object) into a new body object using Text::Autoformat. If the Text::Autoformat is not installed, "undef" is returned. $obj->selectedFields(HEAD) See "Converting" in Mail::Message::Convert Error handling $obj->AUTOLOAD() See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->addReport(OBJECT) See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK]) Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK]) See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->errors() See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]]) Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]]) See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->logPriority(LEVEL) Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat->logPriority(LEVEL) See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->logSettings() See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->notImplemented() See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->report([LEVEL]) See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->reportAll([LEVEL]) See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->trace([LEVEL]) See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter $obj->warnings() See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter Cleanup $obj->DESTROY() See "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter $obj->inGlobalDestruction() See "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter DIAGNOSTICS
Error: Package $package does not implement $method. Fatal error: the specific package (or one of its superclasses) does not implement this method where it should. This message means that some other related classes do implement this method however the class at hand does not. Probably you should investigate this and probably inform the author of the package. SEE ALSO
This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.105, built on May 07, 2012. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/ LICENSE
Copyrights 2001-2012 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html perl v5.14.2 2012-05-07 Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat(3pm)
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