it's really interesting... then how can i match that ^M using regex? i've tried "chomp" when reading each line but it doesn't work...
2008/5/21 Rob Coops <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > That ^M is a line feed, or well the windows version of a line feed. > > There are several different ways in which to write a line feed and of > course to make our lives better *nix, Dos/Windows and Mac all have their own > way of writting them. > > So Jeff's suggestion relies on a little application that simply finds ad > relapces all the dos/windows ways of doing things like line feeds and > replaces them with the unix version of the same. > > If you feel like doing this in perl a simple regex will do the trick, at > least for the line feeds, but there is more windows fun to be had, like the > way MS Word replaces ceretain characters like " ' - and even ... with a > special charatcer because they are estetacly more pleasing to the reader of > the document. I am sure there are more examples and dos2unix covers them > all. > > So if it is a single file and only a one of then dos2unix is the easiest > way, if you want to do it in perl then you will most likely have to use a > regex because not all moachines will have the dos2unix applicaiton > available. > > Regards, > > Rob Coops > > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Remy Guo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> hi all, >> i have a text processing script that can work with a file but cannot work >> with another file that has the same content. >> as i compared the 2 files, i found the file that cannot work has a "^M" at >> the end of each line. what is this? is this what made it not work? >> by the way, i'm under unix. >> thanks.... >> >> -Remy >> > >
