Try the Linux command: dos2unix
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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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
Perl uses the line ending appropriate for the platform \r\n for dos \n for
*nix and translates the
print hey\n
appropriately. You can do:
$var =~ s/\r//;
to remove the ^M but you probably want to look into setting the var $/ and
use chomp.
perldoc -f chomp
chomp This safer version of
