GNU bug report logs - #59656
An error on your web page (example 7.20)

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Package: sed;

Reported by: "Tomas Kana " <kana <at> seznam.cz>

Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 10:55:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: "Tomas Kana " <kana <at> seznam.cz>
To: <bug-sed <at> gnu.org>
Subject: An error on your web page (example 7.20) 
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 10:54:54 +0100 (CET)
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Dear GNU community,


I would like to notify you about an error in the first example


7.20: Squeezing blank lines.


The commented command



# now, squeeze all '\n', this can be also done by:
# s/^\(\n\)*/\1/<br>works fine if the hash tag is erased from the second line, <br>but the next line in the sed script <br>s/\n*/\
/<br>that you have left uncommented on your web page adds an extra blank <br>line after every line. This is not the desired behavior. <br>With best wishes <br>Tomas Kana <br>
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