[TriLUG] vi or sed or perl question - joining lines

[Andrew Perrin]

Boy, that's icky. I would probably do something like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $line;
my $i=1;
while (<>) {
 	chomp;
 	$line .= $_;
 	$i++;
 	if ($i == 12) {
 		print "$line\n";
 		$i = 0;
 		$line = "";
 	}
}
print "$line\n" if $line;

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Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Mike Norwood wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I have a big goofy text file I need to get into a more usable format.
> Basically what I need to do is join every 12 lines into 1 line, down
> through the entire file.  Does anyone have a good suggestion on how to do
> this?  I know that I must have done this same thing 2 years ago, because I
> found an earlier version of this same data from May 2005 that I somehow
> converted, but I now have no idea how it was done.
>
> Thanks, Mike
>
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