From: Alan Munn <amunn@...>
Date: 2009-09-14T04:15:07+09:00
Subject: Re: normalizing newlines

In article 
<31a130740909131121v153e67e7t899884fb9e62a95c@mail.gmail.com>,
 Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Alan Munn <amunn@msu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I have a script that processes text from the clipboard. Depending on the
> > application the text is copied from, (even on the same platform) lines
> > sometimes end in lf, cr, or possibly cr/lf.  What's the best way of
> > normalizing the lines so that my script will work independent of the
> > actual newlines chosen?
> 
> The script is line oriented or has the entire text slurped?

I'm not sure I know exactly what you mean. The script takes copied cells 
in csv format and massages them into different LaTeX table styles for 
insertion into a LaTeX document.  I first split the lines and then use 
csv methods to do the rest.

Alan