Try the Linux command: dos2unix -- Mike Arms
> -----Original Message----- > From: Maraglia, Dominicx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 11:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Seemingly simple??? > > > Hello, > > I have a small problem, which at first seems simple, but has > proven to be a bit of a hair puller. > > A collegue and I are importing some windows formatted ascii > files (onto our linux systems) and extracting certain string > data. Simple enough. However, our problem is that some of > the string data is terminated with what appears to be a > windows carriage return..looks like this: > > somestring^M > anotherstring^M > > I tried chop(), but it does not seem to recognize that character. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Dominic > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs