How about a perl script? :)
while (<>) {
if (/^+/) { s/^+\s*//g; }
}
Edward Glamkowski, Programmer Mathematica Policy Research
EGlamkowski@mathematic-MPR.COM Princeton, NJ
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/
Please, please, provide me with my daily helping of
preposterous and pretentious platitudes, waiter.
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>From: SJM[SMTP:meadsh@ECE.ORST.EDU]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 1997 11:15 AM
>To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca
>Subject: Help with a Unix script for...
>
>Hello, I have a file that has over 6500 lines of code I want to use but
>almost every line has a '+' in front of it. The code is from a patch
>file that I couldn't get to patch so I am doing it manually. Can anyone
>help me with a simple unix script that will filter out these '+'s?
>Maybe to read in the first character of every line and if it is a '+'
>then delete it, otherwise move on to the next line. Or does anyone know
>an easier way?
>
>-Shaw
>
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