pcre2/Detrail

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Perl
Executable File

#!/usr/bin/perl
# This is a script for removing trailing whitespace from lines in files that
# are listed on the command line.
# This subroutine does the work for one file.
sub detrail {
my($file) = $_[0];
my($changed) = 0;
open(IN, "$file") || die "Can't open $file for input";
@lines = <IN>;
close(IN);
foreach (@lines)
{
if (/\s+\n$/)
{
s/\s+\n$/\n/;
$changed = 1;
}
}
if ($changed)
{
open(OUT, ">$file") || die "Can't open $file for output";
print OUT @lines;
close(OUT);
}
}
# This is the main program
$, = ""; # Output field separator
for ($i = 0; $i < @ARGV; $i++) { &detrail($ARGV[$i]); }
# End