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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to edit a content of a document to add \n after each ; Post 302517449 by alister on Tuesday 26th of April 2011 08:33:36 PM
Old 04-26-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by mirni
The sed command above would replace only the first occurrence of ; on a line -- to replace ALL semicolons, you need to specify global replacement:
Code:
sed 's/;/;\\n/g'

That will replace every instance of a semicolon with a semicolon, backslash, and "n".

The portable way of including a newline in the replacement text requires preceding an actual newline character with a backslash (posix does not recognize \n in the replacement text).

Code:
sed 's/;/;\
/g'

Regards,
Alister
 

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Pod::Elemental::Paragraph(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			    Pod::Elemental::Paragraph(3pm)

NAME
Pod::Elemental::Paragraph - a paragraph in a Pod document VERSION
version 0.102362 OVERVIEW
This is probably the most important role in the Pod-Elemental distribution. Classes including this role represent paragraphs in a Pod document. The paragraph is the fundamental unit of dividing up Pod documents, so this is a often-included role. ATTRIBUTES
content This is the textual content of the element, as in a Pod::Eventual event. In other words, this Pod: =head2 content has a content of "content " start_line This attribute, which may or may not be set, indicates the line in the source document where the element began. METHODS
as_pod_string This returns the element as a string, suitable for turning elements back into a document. Some elements, like a "=over" command, will stringify to include extra content like a "=back" command. In the case of elements with children, this method will include the stringified children as well. as_debug_string This method returns a string, like "as_string", but is meant for getting an overview of the document structure, and is not suitable for reproducing a document. Its exact output is likely to change over time. AUTHOR
Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Ricardo SIGNES. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-05-05 Pod::Elemental::Paragraph(3pm)
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