Re: how to append blocks in same file

[John W. Krahn]

Aditi Gupta wrote:

Hi Perlers,

Hello,

I have a file as follows:

#block1
aaa
aaa

#block2
bbb
bbb

#block3
ccc
ccc

and i want to append(or i should say merge) these blocks and get a file like this:

aaabbbccc
aaabbbccc

how can this be done using perl?
please help..

$ echo "
aaa
aaa

bbb
bbb

ccc
ccc
" | perl -l -00ne'my $i; $x[ $i++ ] .= $_ for split /\n/ }{ print for @x'
aaabbbccc
aaabbbccc



John
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