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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing carriage return/line feeds on multiple lines Post 302667571 by elixir_sinari on Friday 6th of July 2012 12:23:26 PM
Old 07-06-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by tomr2012
Elixir - thanks, but my 'Header' line is actually a date and time field, does that make a difference?
Of course it matters. You'll have to replace ^Header using a regex/string specific to your case.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

debian::copyright::stanza::header

Debian::Copyright::Stanza::Header(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		    Debian::Copyright::Stanza::Header(3pm)

NAME

       Debian::Copyright::Stanza::Header - header stanza of Debian copyright file

VERSION

       This document describes Debian::Copyright::Stanza::Header version 0.1 .

SYNOPSIS

	   my $copy = Debian::Copyright::Stanza::Header->new(\%data);
	   print $copy; 			# auto-stringification

DESCRIPTION

       Debian::Copyright::Stanza::Header can be used for representation and manipulation of the header stanza of Debian copyright files in an
       object-oriented way. Converts itself to a textual representation in string context.

FIELDS

       The supported fields for header stanzas are listed below.

       Note that real copyright fields may contain dashes in their names. These are replaced with underscores.

       Format_Specification
       Name
       X_Comment
       Maintainer
       Source

CONSTRUCTOR

       new
       new( { field => value, ... } )
	   Creates a new Debian::Copyright::Stanza::Header object and optionally initialises it with the supplied data.

SEE ALSO

       Debian::Copyright::Stanza::Header inherits most of its functionality from Debian::Copyright::Stanza

COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE
       Copyright (C) 2011 Nicholas Bamber nicholas@periapt.co.uk

       This module is substantially based upon Debian::Control::Stanza::Source.  Copyright (C) 2009 Damyan Ivanov dmn@debian.org

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

perl v5.12.4							    2011-08-27				    Debian::Copyright::Stanza::Header(3pm)
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