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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Removing double spaces in code Post 302653455 by figaro on Saturday 9th of June 2012 11:34:10 AM
Old 06-09-2012
That works as expected, thank you very much.

---------- Post updated at 17:34 ---------- Previous update was at 10:13 ----------

This problem is still vexing me. I believe there should be a simpler solution. In essence we are dealing with the following pattern:
Code:
[ ].*

a series of spaces
Code:
{code}

some code, with or without double / triple / etc spaces
Code:
[ ].*

(optionally) a series of spaces
Code:
// {comment}

(optionally) some comment with or without double / triple / etc spaces
The operation should be to leave 1, 3 and 4 alone and only replace the double spaces with single spaces from sub-pattern 2, the code. It should be possible to do this in a single sed statement.

Something like:
Code:
sed -e 's#\([ ].*\)\([a-z]*\)\([ ].*\)\(// .*\)#\1(s/  +/ /g \2)\3\4#' inputfile

Can someone give some pointers on how to do this?
 

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concat(1T)						       Tcl Built-In Commands							concat(1T)

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NAME
concat - Join lists together SYNOPSIS
concat ?arg arg ...? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
This command joins each of its arguments together with spaces after trimming leading and trailing white-space from each of them. If all the arguments are lists, this has the same effect as concatenating them into a single list. It permits any number of arguments; if no args are supplied, the result is an empty string. EXAMPLES
Although concat will concatenate lists (so the command: concat a b {c d e} {f {g h}} will return "a b c d e f {g h}" as its result), it will also concatenate things that are not lists, and hence the command: concat " a b {c " d " e} f" will return "a b {c d e} f" as its result. Note that the concatenation does not remove spaces from the middle of its arguments, so the command: concat "a b c" { d e f } will return "a b c d e f" (i.e. with three spaces between the a, the b and the c). SEE ALSO
append(1T), eval(1T) KEYWORDS
concatenate, join, lists ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWTcl | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org. Tcl 8.3 concat(1T)
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