Re: joining word/ lines in a file

• Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>

> If isn't perfect. An 'and' at the end of the line will be joined with
> the beginning of the next line, which is not right.

Don't strip the newlines, replace them with white space:

J: D'oh! I should have known that.

    perl -e 'undef $/; ($a=<ARGV>) =~ s/\n+/ /g; print $a' \

        [file [file...]] [<file]

will convert nearly anything you can give it into a nice, clean, single line.

J: that doesn't work when there are '--' comments in the SQL. Removing the comments is not an option, they may include hints.

If you want to get things neater than this see the examples in Parse::RecDescent.

J: Haven't investigated that yet, should give it a try.

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