From: Michael Brailsford <brailsmt@...>
Date: 2002-12-08T12:35:36+09:00
Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP w/ regular expression

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:19:21PM +0900, Dmitrii PapaGeorgio wrote:
> I have a group of data inside a text file like this
> 
> Disregarded Entities: The International Tax Aspects
> by R. Peroni,                                   ABA Tax Section         2002
> ..ns;title(disregarded entities w/3 international)
> 
> 
> This is EXACTLY how it is formatted. Does anyone here know any regular 
> expression to slice it like this? so I can have them as single strings?
> 
> 
> Disregarded Entities: The International Tax Aspects
> by R. Peroni
> ABA Tax Section
> 2002
> ..ns;title(disregarded entities w/3 international)

print $a.gsub /,?\s\s+/, "\n"

Where $a is the text in question.

-Michael