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# 1  
Old 11-09-2009
How to use Perl to join multi-line into single line
Hello,


Did anyone know how to write a perl script to merge the multi-line into a single line where each line with start at timestamp



Input-->

timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;
a;
b;
c;


timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;
aa;
bb;
cc;


Output-->
timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;a;b;c;
timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;aa;bb;cc;


Thank You


HappyDay

---------- Post updated at 01:33 AM ---------- Previous update was at 01:31 AM ----------

Hello,

I had this script but can't work

# read "input.txt"
open (FILE, 'org.log') or die "$!";
open (NEWFILE, '> joinline.txt') or die "$!";
$line = '';
while (<FILE>) {
chomp($_);
if ($_ ne '') {
$line = $line . "" . $_;
} else {
print "$line\n";
print NEWFILE "$line\n";
$line = '';
}
}
close (FILE);
close (NEWFILE);
# 2  
Old 11-09-2009
Here's one way to do it with Perl:

Code:
$
$ cat -n f6
     1  timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;
     2  a;
     3  b;
     4  c;
     5
     6
     7  timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;
     8  aa;
     9  bb;
    10  cc;
$
$ perl -lne 'BEGIN{undef $/} s/\n//g; s/;(timestamp)/;\n$1/g; print' f6
timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;a;b;c;
timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;aa;bb;cc;
$
$

tyler_durden
# 3  
Old 11-09-2009
perl:
Code:
local $/="\n\n\n";
while(<DATA>){
	s/\n//g;
	print $_,"\n";
}
__DATA__
timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;
a;
b;
c;


timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;
aa;
bb;
cc;

sed:
Code:
sed -n '/^$/!{
${H;x;s/\n//g;p;}
$!{H;}
}
/^$/{x;s/\n//g;p;d;}' yourfile.txt | sed '/^$/d'

# 4  
Old 11-10-2009
Code:
 cat abc.txt
timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;
a;
b;
c;
ddaa;

timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;
aa;
bb;
cc;

Code:
 perl -e 'my $ln=0;
             while(<>){ 
                chomp;
                print "\n"if (m/^timestamp/ && $ln);
                print"$_";
                $ln++;}
print"\n" '

HTH,
PL
# 5  
Old 11-10-2009
And yet another:

Code:
$
$ cat -n f6
     1  timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;
     2  a;
     3  b;
     4  c;
     5
     6
     7  timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;
     8  aa;
     9  bb;
    10  cc;
    11
    12
    13
    14
    15
    16
    17  timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;
    18  aaa;
    19  bbb;
    20  ccc;
    21
    22  timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;
    23  aaaa;
    24  bbbb;
    25  cccc;
$
$ perl -lne 'chomp; if(/./){$s.=$_; $x=1} elsif(/^$/ && $x){print $s; $s=""; $x=0} END{print $s}' f6
timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;a;b;c;
timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;aa;bb;cc;
timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;aaa;bbb;ccc;
timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;aaaa;bbbb;cccc;
$
$

tyler_durden
# 6  
Old 11-10-2009
Code:
$\ = "\n";             
$/ = "\n\n";
while (<>) {  chomp;  s/\n//g;   print $_ ;}

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