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From: Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Editing Control Characters, Linefeeds, Etc.
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:14:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0HFW00HHPYGQ3C@mtaout02.icomcast.net> (raw)

I don't know precisely what you want to do,
but I guarantee, edbrowse can do it.
You can edit an executable file,
find the string "hello world",
change the w to a j,
write the file, and run it, and get the output:

hello jorld

To undos a file, do this.

,s/\r$//

CR in the middle of a line should probably become a true line break.

,s/\r/\n/g

Change all collections of tabs and spaces to a single space.
Remember, whitespace doesn't mean anything in html, so may as well simplify it.

,s/[ \t]+/ /g

I have an edbrowse script that does a fair job of unwording a file,
so you can read the text in whatever.doc.
For more info, send questions to eklhad@comcast.net.

Karl



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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Karl Dahlke [this message]
 John J. Boyer
 ` Lee Maschmeyer
   ` Lee Maschmeyer
 ` jude dashiell

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