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carriage return/newline to space delineated file
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I also posted this in the UNIX group - Though I might be able to get a response here as well
I have a rather large text file of the form:
<BLOCKQUOTE>
abuse
abuts
abuzz
abyes
abysm
abyss
acari
acerb
acers
ached
aches
acids
acing
acini
ackee
acmes
acned
acold
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
I want to trun this into a file that looks like this:
<BLOCKQUOTE>
abuse abuts abuzz abyes abysm abyss acari acerb acers ached aches acids acing acini ackee acmes acned acold...
</BLOCKQUOTE>
I know this can be done with a regular expression and BBEdit. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
Thanx in advance...
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Search for:
"\r"
And replace with:
" "
Without the quotes, obviously.
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Originally posted by megasad:
Search for:
"\r"
And replace with:
" "
Without the quotes, obviously.
I have already tried this in BBEdit and it does not work. Technically I should be searching for /r/n for return and newline. Anyways, this does not work in BBEdit.
Anyone else have any ideas?
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This is from another thread in teh UNIX forum
Originally posted by Paul McCann:
In the find field enter
[^>]\r[^<]
and in the replace field just throw in a space. Select "use grep" and you should get
what you're after (assuming there's no leading spaces on the lines in the text file).
Cheers,
Paul
I tried this in BBEdit, but it did not work. I just get the system bell when I try to do this.
Here is the actual file I am working with.
As I said, I need this ASAP, so any help would be very appreciated!
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Originally posted by hadocon:
I have already tried this in BBEdit and it does not work. Technically I should be searching for /r/n for return and newline. Anyways, this does not work in BBEdit.
What version of BBEdit are you using? I just followed my own instructions on the file you linked to and it worked perfectly. Here you go.
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Originally posted by megasad:
What version of BBEdit are you using? I just followed my own instructions on the file you linked to and it worked perfectly. Here you go.
Thanx 4 the help.
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