Unfortunately, I am getting a file that needs to be manipulated before
printing, and perl is the hammer that I have available, so this problem
looks all the more like a nail. One of the shortcomings of this file is that
on our system, at one point on the page, lines are printing one line higher
than they should. What is unique between the good line and the bad line is
that the line ends with some spaces and the numeral 2, and is followed by
four new lines. There is another line that ends with spaces and 2, followed
by two new lines, and other lines than end with 2 as part of a date,
followed by new lines. I thought it would be a simple matter to find space
2\n\n\n, and replace with space 2\n\n\n\n:
perl -pi -e 's/  2\n\n\n/  2\n\n\n\n/' FILENAME

And it's not working. And I am not sure why it is not working. Can someone
tell me why not, and what would work, instead?

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com
before someone else says it:
there IS no substitute for perl

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