[PLUG] Paragraph Counting Script
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Jul 13 22:53:14 UTC 2009
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> perl -e 'local $/ = "\n\n"; my @p = <>; print scalar(@p), "\n";'
Eric,
I _knew_ there was a perl solution. :-) After all, it is for text
processing. Unfortunatly, I don't know perl, so I thank you.
> You may want to check for blank paragraphs or allow for trailing, ending,
> or more than two newlines.
I'm cutting and pasting from web pages and cleaning the text as I go.
There won't be blanks or more than two newlines.
Thanks!
Rich
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