Ryan Frantz wrote: > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Ankur Gupta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 2:48 PM >>To: Dave Adams >>Cc: beginners perl >>Subject: Re: Looking for perl scripts to remove ^M >> >>On 9/23/2005 11:28 PM Dave Adams wrote: >> >> >>>Sometimes I get perl scripts that were developed on windows and then >>>brought over to UNIX and the scripts contain all the pesky >>>metacharacters of ^M and excessive blank lines. >>> >>>Does anyone have a simple script to clean these files up or > > suggestions? > >>If you are using vi/vim as your editor then this is the good way to > > deal > >>with it.. >> >>:%s/.$// > > > This could also remove _any_ single characters just before the EOL that > aren't ^M. I know it's rare, but I've come across half-DOS, half-UNIX > text files like this where some EOLs had the DOS EOL char and some > didn't (I have no idea why other than someone was previously trying to > remove them...). >
The same can be applied, you just should be more specific... :%s/^M// To make the '^M' hit Ctrl+v then M. http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
