Hi
I need to delete trailing spaces, tabs and unprintable charactes from the file.
This file has a number of blank lines which should be left intact. Another words I am trying to remove the junk at the end of each line. Does anyone come across the similar problem? Thanks a lot for any help -A (3 Replies)
hello
i have written a multitask script which performs verifications on the server (RHEL 5 tikanga); based on list of rules.
since the results are huge both in length and number and I am sending them all to my log file.
Is there any method to organize the STATUS of my results in a defined... (1 Reply)
Request if some one could provide me shell script that converts the below "input file" to "CSV format file" given
Name Domain Contact Phone Email Location
----------------------- ------------------------------------------------ ------- ----- ---------------------------------... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I wanted to know is there any way we can remove white spaces/tabs before & after some pattern { eg. before & after "," }.
Please find below sample data below,
Sat Jul 23 16:10:03 EDT 2011 , 12345678 , PROD , xyz_2345677 , testuuyt , ... (3 Replies)
I want to remove extra spaces from variable in aix script.
We retrieve the data from oracle database and then print the values. We have a value on 90th position.
When we execute the query on sqlplus it shows the length of 90th position as 3, but when we use the same query in aix script it shows... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am on HP-UX and K shell.
When I am using while/for loop for reading a file. It is working fine but not reading tabs:
Suppose, if the line is: ; ;COMP; ; ; ;
then loop is reading as
; ;COMP; ;... (5 Replies)
Hi! I have been struggling with a large file that has stray end of line characters.
I am working on a Mac (Lion). I mention this only because I have been mucking around with fixing my problem using sed, and I have learned far more than I wanted to know about Unix and Mac eol characters.
I... (1 Reply)
Hey Guys ,
Recently working on a requirement , i had to deal with XLS file with multiple tabs and the requirement was as below :
1. Convert one XLS file with multiple tabs to multiple CSV files.
-- As i was working on MAC , so it was quite easy through APPLESCRIPT to deal with this.But... (6 Replies)
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text::tabs
Text::Tabs(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Text::Tabs(3pm)NAME
Text::Tabs - expand and unexpand tabs like unix expand(1) and unexpand(1)SYNOPSIS
use Text::Tabs;
$tabstop = 4; # default = 8
@lines_without_tabs = expand(@lines_with_tabs);
@lines_with_tabs = unexpand(@lines_without_tabs);
DESCRIPTION
Text::Tabs does most of what the unix utilities expand(1) and unexpand(1) do. Given a line with tabs in it, "expand" replaces those tabs
with the appropriate number of spaces. Given a line with or without tabs in it, "unexpand" adds tabs when it can save bytes by doing so,
like the "unexpand -a" command.
Unlike the old unix utilities, this module correctly accounts for any Unicode combining characters (such as diacriticals) that may occur in
each line for both expansion and unexpansion. These are overstrike characters that do not increment the logical position. Make sure you
have the appropriate Unicode settings enabled.
EXPORTS
The following are exported:
expand
unexpand
$tabstop
The $tabstop variable controls how many column positions apart each tabstop is. The default is 8.
Please note that "local($tabstop)" doesn't do the right thing and if you want to use "local" to override $tabstop, you need to use
"local($Text::Tabs::tabstop)".
EXAMPLE
#!perl
# unexpand -a
use Text::Tabs;
while (<>) {
print unexpand $_;
}
Instead of the shell's "expand" comand, use:
perl -MText::Tabs -n -e 'print expand $_'
Instead of the shell's "unexpand -a" command, use:
perl -MText::Tabs -n -e 'print unexpand $_'
SUBVERSION
This module comes in two flavors: one for modern perls (5.10 and above) and one for ancient obsolete perls. The version for modern perls
has support for Unicode. The version for old perls does not. You can tell which version you have installed by looking at
$Text::Tabs::SUBVERSION: it is "old" for obsolete perls and "modern" for current perls.
This man page is for the version for modern perls and so that's probably what you've got.
BUGS
Text::Tabs handles only tabs (" ") and combining characters ("/pM/"). It doesn't count backwards for backspaces (" "), omit other non-
printing control characters ("/pC/"), or otherwise deal with any other zero-, half-, and full-width characters.
LICENSE
Copyright (C) 1996-2002,2005,2006 David Muir Sharnoff. Copyright (C) 2005 Aristotle Pagaltzis Copyright (C) 2012 Google, Inc. This module
may be modified, used, copied, and redistributed at your own risk. Publicly redistributed modified versions must use a different name.
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