also sprach Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org> [2005.03.19.0827 +0100]:
> paragraphs cut off because of the limits of the medium. (Pasting from
> #-replies irc logs or from a live client? Per-candidate logfiles of
> #-replies? Use of a text editor for collection / reformatting? Etc.)
I used the following script, and ended up piping it through tools
I know better than perl, as shown at the end:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
while (<>) {
s/^[[:digit:]:]{5} //; # trim leading time
s/^[[:space:]]*//mg; # trim leading spaces
s/^<[ +@]?([[:alnum:]_-]+)>//; # convert nickname format
chomp; # remove newlines
s/\[/\n[/g; # reinsert newlines
print;
}
print "\n";
# read NICK; perl debate-reply-trim.pl | fmt -w 350 \
# | sed -e "s,^,[$NICK]," | tr -s ' '
I am sure this can be majorly improved.
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