#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my $pont = qr{[.!?]+}; ## punctuation my $abrev = qr{\b(?:Pr|Dr|Mr|[A-Z]|i\.e|e\.g|et al|etc|p|Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec|vs)\.}; ## abbreviations my $header = qr{(=+ .*? =+)}; $/ = ""; while(<>) { chomp; ## for each paragraph, s/\h*\n\h*/ /g; ## remove \n s/($pont)\h+(\S)/$1\n$2/g; ## punctuation+space s/($abrev)\n/$1 /g; ## undo \n after abbreviations s/$header\h+(\S)/$1\n$2/g; ## vimwiki headers print "$_\n"; }