Re: suppressing special output from troff -Tascii
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Is there a way to get troff to not do these formatting steps? As an
> alternative how can I get sed or some other text manipulator to take
> the three character sequence <characterX><control-H><characterX> into
> simply <characterX>?
>
perl -pie "s/X\cHX/X/g"
will replace X followed by C-H followed by X with X.
Better you try it on a copy first. I don't trust myself that much :-)
Maybe you want the enhanced version perl -pie "s/(\w)\cH\1/$1/g"
Will change "a word character followed by C-H followed by the privious
word" to the word character found.
A^HA will be changed to A. A^HB won't be changed.
A word character is defined as [a-zA-Z_0-9]
Ciao,
Martin
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