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sort a file, spaces to new line

2005-03-04T14:00:31-04:00

sorry, didnt pay too much attention to the " {1,}" expression, since it never worked that way I liked . my regsubs with RE never replaced anything . but this one works, sorry for bother.

Statistics: Posted by De Kus — Fri Mar 04, 2005 2:00 pm

sort a file, spaces to new line

2005-03-04T12:33:35-04:00

trim will only remove leading and trailing spaces, best will probably be if you first just [split $list] and then you will get a few empty list entrys which can be delted within a for loop and lreplace and all left is a clean, safe list of the names.

to show what split does:
Code:
[14:15:03] tcl: evaluate (.tcl): split "name1   name2\nname3"Tcl: name1 {} {} name2 name3

you didn't bother to test that regsub, did you?

it takes care of arbitrary number of spaces in-between, and [string trim] takes care of leading and trailing spaces - just what that guy needs, nothing more, nothing less

Statistics: Posted by demond — Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:33 pm

sort a file, spaces to new line

2005-03-04T09:14:21-04:00

trim will only remove leading and trailing spaces, best will probably be if you first just [split $list] and then you will get a few empty list entrys which can be delted within a for loop and lreplace and all left is a clean, safe list of the names.

to show what split does:

Code:

[14:15:03] tcl: evaluate (.tcl): split "name1   name2\nname3"Tcl: name1 {} {} name2 name3

Statistics: Posted by De Kus — Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:14 am

sort a file, spaces to new line

2005-03-04T03:09:25-04:00

Code:

string map {" " "\n"} "name1 name2"

or, better yet

Code:

regsub -all " {1,}" [string trim "  name1 name2   name3 "] "\n"

Statistics: Posted by demond — Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:09 am

sort a file, spaces to new line

2005-03-03T20:46:54-04:00

hi

i have a file with names like:

Code:

name1 name2  name3     name4name 5 name6  name6  name8 name9 name10  name11 name 11

i want to remove the spaces. for every space, a new line.

how to set a var to my paste here i know. (open file etc.)
or how i can close file and save.

but i have no idea which commands will help me to make the " " or " " to a new line.

Statistics: Posted by Burke — Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:46 pm