On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, System Administrator wrote:
> This is for newbies, right? Can anyone tell me why a s/^M//g won't get
> rid of the annoying ^M on the end of each line of an imported Paradox
> database? Is there a better way? I know this has to be simple, yet I
> can find no reference in my plethora of Perl books. TIA for any and
> all help - you guys are great and I appreciate the time you all put
> into this effort to help folks like me :-)
perl -pi.bak -e 's/\cM//g' <file>
will do the trick, right n the command-line. Using s/^M//g won;t work
because ^ in a regexp tries to match the beginning of the string, so your
regexp is trying to match a string that starts with M and replace it with
an empty string. Not what you wanted! \cM matches against the Control-M
character.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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