[Tutor] Remove soft line break

Mats Wichmann mats at wichmann.us
Mon Feb 4 14:09:02 EST 2019


On 2/4/19 10:13 AM, Valerio Pachera wrote:
> 
> I have a file with row that split at the 80th character.
> The next row start with a blank space, meaning that i part of the previous row.
> 
> Example:
> 
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam non justo enim. Viv
>  amus dapibus quis neque vitae ornare. Pellentesque at pharetra sapien, id eleif
>  end lacus. Nullam ut semper enim, vulputate venenatis justo. Vestibulum vehicul
>  a dolor sit amet ultricies vulputate. Aenean lobortis, nulla eu scelerisque hen
> 
> What do you suggest to get the text on a single line?

joining the lines is simple - use an empty string as the thing to join
on, and if you want to ditch the beginning space there's a function for
that too (lstrip). But... if you don't have a precise way to know if a
word was split in the middle or on a space (or do you know this?), you
probably need human intervention to reassemble the original.




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