if its a unix file,.open in vi
:%s/ctrl+v ctrl+m//g
(where ctrl+v and ctrl+m gives the ^M character.)
cheers
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Douglas Lentz wrote:
> David Inglis wrote:
>
> >I am reading in a csv file and it has a control character ^M at the end
> >of each line how can I remove these charaters, I have tried the following
> >and had no success.
> >
> >$a=~s/\^M//;
> >$a=~s/^M//;
> >
> >
> >Any help appreciated thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> This is an MS-DOSsy file, where each line is terminated by the famous
> CR/LF combination. "^M" is the carriage return. Between the regex
> slashes ("the jungle") "^" means "beginning of line", so what you have
> instructed regex to do is erase any capital "M" that happens to occur at
> the beginning of a line.
>
> If you have a copy of the program dos2unix around, it will take care of
> this for you, otherwise you can try $a =~ s/\x0D//;
>
> which means replace any CR you find with null. HTH.
>
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