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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl one-line substitution syntax Post 302884604 by Klashxx on Tuesday 21st of January 2014 04:39:54 AM
Old 01-21-2014
In a oneliner:
Code:
perl -ne 's/(\s*|\n)//g;print $_' inputfile

Inside a multiline script:
Code:
perl -e 's/(\s*|\n)//g && print $_ foreach (<>);' < inputfile

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PPIx::Regexp::Token::GroupType::Code(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		 PPIx::Regexp::Token::GroupType::Code(3pm)

NAME
PPIx::Regexp::Token::GroupType::Code - Represent one of the embedded code indicators SYNOPSIS
use PPIx::Regexp::Dumper; PPIx::Regexp::Dumper->new( 'qr{(?{print "hello world! ")}smx' ) ->print(); INHERITANCE
"PPIx::Regexp::Token::GroupType::Code" is a PPIx::Regexp::Token::GroupType. "PPIx::Regexp::Token::GroupType::Code" has no descendants. DESCRIPTION
This method represents one of the embedded code indicators, either '?' or '??', in the zero-width assertion (?{ print "Hello, world! " }) or the old-style deferred expression syntax my $foo; $foo = qr{ foo (??{ $foo }) }smx; METHODS
This class provides no public methods beyond those provided by its superclass. SUPPORT
Support is by the author. Please file bug reports at <http://rt.cpan.org>, or in electronic mail to the author. AUTHOR
Thomas R. Wyant, III wyant at cpan dot org COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2009-2012 by Thomas R. Wyant, III This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.10.0. For more details, see the full text of the licenses in the directory LICENSES. 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 v5.14.2 2012-06-06 PPIx::Regexp::Token::GroupType::Code(3pm)
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