Hmm. I presume you're using VMS? This is a platform-specific character set,
which is always a bit iffy in Perl. You could try setting the input record
separator to NEL by adding -0205 (those are both digit charater zeros) to
your command line. Your { chop; print; } two-liner will then work fine,
except that you may want to print '\n' after each record so that there is
something to separate them. All this really depends on what is expected by
the software that is going to read the edited file. Give it a try anyway.Cheers, Rob "Shaunn Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > --thanks for the reply: > > --at this point, i'm still trying to figure out > --how to find NEL. the ASCII chart says the following: > > [snip] > DEC HEX OCT EDT TPU CHAR DESCRIPTION > > 10 00A 012 <LF> L/F CTRL-J LF line feed > > 13 00D 015 <CR> C/R CTRL-M CR carriage return > > ... > ... > ... > DEC Multinational Character Set Extension of the ASCII character set > > DEC HEX OCT EDT TPU CHAR DESCRIPTION > > 133 085 205 <NEL> ? NEL next line > > [/snip] > > > --i thought it was newline, too, but this seems to just say 'next line'. > --i had imagined that control-m, control-j is what created this, but, > --now i'm not so sure. > > --as i've said, i can do a sed to remove CF and LF, but i'm thinking > --that NEL is just the end of the line and i can't remove it ... or maybe > --i can't replace it ... *shrug* ... > > --i don't know how to isolate characters like this in perl, so, i > --don't have much of a script to show you. i was looking > --at http://groups.google.com and it appears someone just said: > > [snip] > > #!/usr/bin/perl -pi > > chop; > print; > > [/snip] > > --but i think i'm doing that wrong (actually, i *know* i am) .... > > --so, that's where i am now. > > --any suggestions? > > --thanks! > > -X > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > I think we may need to see your Perl code Shaunn. I've never heard of a NEL > character but that may be my ignorance; do you mean newline? How do you know > the control characters aren't being removed by what you've done? > > chomp() will remove the last character from a string if it is the input > record separator character $/, normally '\n'. chop() will remove the last > character whatever it is, and so will do the job as long as you're sure the > string ends with a charatcer that you don't want. > > Let us know, > > Rob > > > > > "Shaunn Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Howdy: > > > > I have a text file that I'm trying to use, but, it has control characters > > at the end. > > > > [snip] > > > > test.txt: ASCII text, with very long lines, with NEL line terminators > > > > [/snip] > > > > I've tried to use 'sed' and 'tr' to remove NEL and just have > > an ASCII text. I've even used dos2unix, but that doesn't > > seem to help. > > > > I thought I could do it with chomp / chop, but I don't think I'm > > doing it properly. > > > > How can I remove things like CL/LF, NEL, etc from a > > text file? > > > > Thanks! > > > > -X > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
