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Operating Systems Solaris Line too long error Replace string with new line line character Post 302522686 by ducati on Monday 16th of May 2011 10:16:03 AM
Old 05-16-2011
Line too long error Replace string with new line line character
I get a file which has all its content in a single row.
The file contains xml data containing 3000 records, but all in a single row, making it difficult for Unix to Process the file.

I decided to insert a new line character at all occurrences of a particular string in this file (say replacing "<record>" with "\n<record>", so that the file has multiple rows without impacting the xml data in it.

I have tried sed, awk and perl commands but probably these commands aren't processing the file with too long line in it.
I cannot 'fold' the file as it breaks the file at a fixed width, disrupting the xml tags and xml data.

How can I edit this file.
 

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test::bdd::cucumber::model::line

Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Line(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		     Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Line(3pm)

NAME

       Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Line - Model to represent a line in a feature file

VERSION

       version 0.11

DESCRIPTION

       Model to represent a line in a feature file

ATTRIBUTES

   number
       The line number this line represents

   document
       The Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Document object this line belongs to.

   raw_content
       The content of the line, unmodified

METHODS

   indent
       Returns the number of preceding spaces before content on a line

   content
       Returns the line's content, with the indentation stripped

   content_remove_indentation
       Accepts an int of number of spaces, and returns the content with exactly that many preceding spaces removed.

   debug_summary
       Returns a string with the filename and line number

   filename
       Returns either the filename, or the string "[String]" if the document was loaded from a string

   is_blank
   is_comment
       Return true if the line is either blank, or is a comment.

AUTHOR

       Peter Sergeant "pete@clueball.com"

LICENSE

       Copyright 2011, Peter Sergeant; Licensed under the same terms as Perl

perl v5.14.2							    2012-05-20				     Test::BDD::Cucumber::Model::Line(3pm)
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