/* John Pfeiffer, 10jan09 a quick prog for my wife to remove linefeeds (enters, /n) from the end of lines EXCEPT when there are 2 lines feeds (e.g. a paragraph break) */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
char c,d;
char outputfile[128]="no-linefeeds-";
FILE* ifp;
FILE* ofp;
ifp = fopen(argv[1],"r");
strcat(outputfile, argv[1]);
ofp = fopen(outputfile,"w");
if( (ifp == NULL) || (ofp == NULL))
{ printf("\nERROR opening file, try remove-linefeed-characters filename.txt\n");
exit(1);
}
c = getc(ifp);
while( c!= EOF)
{
if( c == '\n')
{
d = getc(ifp);
if( d == '\n')
{
putc('\n',ofp);
putc('\n',ofp);
}
else
{
putc(' ',ofp);
putc(d,ofp);
}
}
else
{ putc(c,ofp);
}
c = getc(ifp);
}
fclose(ifp);
return 0;
}