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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing extra unwanted spaces Post 302689903 by pamu on Wednesday 22nd of August 2012 08:45:27 AM
Old 08-22-2012
Bug

try this...

Code:
$ cat file
abc|bd |bkd123 .. 1space
abc  |badf  |bakdsf123 .. 2space
abc |bqe   |bakuowe .. 3space

$awk -F "|" '{ gsub(" ","",$2)}1' OFS=\| file

abc|bd|bkd123 .. 1space
abc  |badf|bakdsf123 .. 2space
abc |bqe|bakuowe .. 3space

 

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Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)

NAME
Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things DESCRIPTION
Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something. This object can be used to represent either padding or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside) SYNOPSIS
use Graphics::Primitive::Insets; my $insets = Graphics::Primitive::Insets->new({ top => 5, bottom => 5, left => 5, right => 5 }); METHODS
Constructor new Creates a new Graphics::Primitive::Insets. Instance Methods as_array Return these insets as an array in the form of top, right, bottom and left. bottom Set/Get the inset from the bottom. equal_to Determine if these Insets are equal to another. left Set/Get the inset from the left. right Set/Get the inset from the right. top Set/Get the inset from the top. zero Sets all the insets (top, left, bottom, right) to 0. AUTHOR
Cory Watson, "<gphat@cpan.org>" SEE ALSO
perl(1) COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright 2008-2010 by Cory G Watson. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.12.3 2010-08-21 Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)
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