Convert a file of words into a file delimited by a single delimiter.

TMSS10SingleSpace [-d delimiter] [-g group]

TMSS10SingleSpace will read in a file on stdin and ensure the number of spaces between each word is no more than one space and optionally replace the single space with an alternative delimiter then write the record to stdout.

The options which apply to the TMSS10SingleSpace command are:

• -d a single character that is to be used as a delimiter. If this argument is not passed the delimiter will

be a single space.

• -g a filter value that is to be matched against each element that may have embedded strings so that the

string is considered a single element.

When using the group argument the program will execute code that is highly recursive and this will slow the program down considerably. This is probably still preferable to writing a custom pre-processor, but where the input file is large and CPU consumption is expensive or time is sensitive a pre-processor may be a better option.

zero Program has ended successfully. non-zero Program has not ended successfully.

This program does not use any environmental variables.

Example 1. TMSS10SingleSpace: Replace multiple spaces with a comma and group times. TMSS10SingleSpace -d “,” -g “??/??/???? ??:??” Files stdout Output Reports. TMSS10SingleSpace 2 stderr Diagnostic messages. stdin Program input.