For each line, there should be 4 fields separated by the "|", but unfortunately there are unexpected line breaks that make it a mess.
How to clean up the mess by reformating the lines to make it like
I guess it should be like checking the number of "|" in each line and if the number of "|" in a line is <3, then the line break of that line have to be removed.
But I have no idea on what should be used, say, sed?
Did someone encounter such issue before?
If so, could somone share how it could be tackled?
Thanks a lot.
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 09-05-2012 at 01:20 AM..
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Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitImplUserNContributed PePerl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitImplicitNewlines(3)NAME
Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitImplicitNewlines - Use concatenation or HEREDOCs instead of literal line breaks in
strings.
AFFILIATION
This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.
DESCRIPTION
Strings with embedded line breaks are hard to read. Use concatenation or HEREDOCs instead.
my $foo = "Line one is quite long
Line two"; # Bad
my $foo = "Line one is quite long
Line two"; # Better, but still hard to read
my $foo = "Line one is quite long
"
. "Line two"; # Better still
my $foo = <<'EOF'; # Use heredoc for longer passages
Line one is quite long
Line two
Line three breaks the camel's back
EOF
CONFIGURATION
This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.
AUTHOR
Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>
CREDITS
Initial development of this policy was supported by a grant from the Perl Foundation.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Chris Dolan. Many rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license
can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
perl v5.16.32014-06Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitImplicitNewlines(3)
09-05-2012
Questions on removing unexpected line breaks