On Nov 26, Quelance said:
>replace any matched spaces with
>replace a new line with <br>
Um, newline is a space.
>while(<INFILE>) {
> s/\s/ /; #replace spaces with
> s/\n/<br>\n/; #replace newlines with <br>
> print $_;
> print OUTFILE $_;
>}
You probably want to change s/\s/ / to s/[ \t]/ /g. That does
two things differently:
1. uses [ \t] to match a space or a tab, instead of \s (because \s
matches \n)
2. s///g <-- substitutes GLOBALLY, that is, replaces all occurrences
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