01-12-2018
Hi Jag_1981,
No. You changed the format of the input data in between post #4 and post #6!
In your sample input data in post #4 in this thread, records are separated by a blank line. But, the sample data that you say is not working has no separator between records and, therefore, there is no way to determine where one record ends and the next begins.
Your sample output also differs by removing the blank lines between output records.
Please do not blame RudiC for providing you with bad code when the code he provided works perfectly with the description of what was to be done on the sample input you originally provided.
Note also that your output samples are not consistent with your input samples in either post #4 or post #6. You say you want double-quoted <newline>s and <vertical-bar>s to be removed, but that is only true part of the time. In the sample outputs that you have shown us some of those characters are replaced by <space> characters instead of being removed. For an example look at Tour World versus TourWorld in both of those posts and RudiC's code removes all of them as requested in your problem statements, but it doesn't match (and can't match) the sample output you provided in either case. If some <newline> characters are to be replaced by <space> instead of being removed, you need to CLEARLY specify the logic that can be used to determine which action is to be taken. You also sometimes replace a single <space> with two adjacent <space> characters in one place in post #4.
Similarly, if there aren't any blank lines between records in your input file, you need to clearly specify how the end of a record is supposed to be identified. Please help us help you by clearly specifying what is supposed to happen and by providing sample inputs and outputs that match the behavior that you describe.
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NAME
Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitInterpolationOfLiterals - Always use single quotes for literal strings.
AFFILIATION
This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.
DESCRIPTION
Don't use double-quotes or "qq//" if your string doesn't require interpolation. This saves the interpreter a bit of work and it lets the
reader know that you really did intend the string to be literal.
print "foobar"; #not ok
print 'foobar'; #ok
print qq/foobar/; #not ok
print q/foobar/; #ok
print "$foobar"; #ok
print "foobar
"; #ok
print qq/$foobar/; #ok
print qq/foobar
/; #ok
print qq{$foobar}; #preferred
print qq{foobar
}; #preferred
Use of double-quotes might be reasonable if the string contains single quote (') characters:
print "it's me"; # ok, if configuration flag set
CONFIGURATION
The types of quoting styles to exempt from this policy can be configured via the "allow" option. This must be a whitespace-delimited
combination of some or all of the following styles: "qq{}", "qq()", "qq[]", and "qq//".
This is useful because some folks have configured their editor to apply special syntax highlighting within certain styles of quotes. For
example, you can tweak "vim" to use SQL highlighting for everything that appears within "qq{}" or "qq[]" quotes. But if those strings are
literal, Perl::Critic will complain. To prevent this, put the following in your .perlcriticrc file:
[ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitInterpolationOfLiterals]
allow = qq{} qq[]
The flag "allow_if_string_contains_single_quote" permits double-quoted strings if the string contains a single quote (') character. It
defaults to off; to turn it on put the following in your .perlcriticrc file:
[ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitInterpolationOfLiterals]
allow_if_string_contains_single_quote = 1
SEE ALSO
Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::RequireInterpolationOfMetachars
AUTHOR
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <jeff@imaginative-software.com>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Imaginative Software Systems. All 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
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