Text Manipulation/Replacement

[Ubence Quevedo]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 3:22:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Text Manipulation/Replacement
> 
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Ubence Quevedo wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I've used pdftotext to convert a pdf document to text and then used a
> > combination of grep and awk to single out data and replace formatting
> > that I didn't need.
> >
> > The output data eventually looks like this:
> > 12,123456789
> > ,0987654321
> >
> > But I want it to look like this:
> > 12,123456789,0987654321
> >
> > I've tried many different things with awk, but I can't get it replace \r, with 
> just a ,
> 
> Hmm - I've always had headaches dealing with newlines in sed and awk
> (to a lesser extent - I'm more familiar with sed).
> 
> How about perl?
> 
> cat foo.txt | perl -pi -e 's/\n//g'
> 
> Chris
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Hi Chris,

This worked...kinda...but it ate all of the new lines, so I have one continuous line.  I need to find all instances of "\n," and replace them with ",".  That way it is very specific in what is found and replaced.  I have very little perl knowledge, and my feeble attempt at modifying the perl command above failed miserably.

Any other ideas?

-Ubence