At 11:51 AM 6/16/00 -0500, Smith, Sheldon wrote:
>(I must be in my "dense" phase.)
>
>Various VMS utilities generate text files, and occasionally embed a <CR><LF>
>pair in the record itself, rather than simply writing two records. Typing
>the file out is no big deal, but it's a little obnoxious to read inside of
>an editor, for example, TPU.
>
>Does anybody have a snippet of code lying around that would
> * convert a record with embedded CR-LF pairs into multiple records, and
> * simply pass through all others?
Try this:
while (<>) {
s/\cM//;
print;
}
Or, if you'd rather do it completely from the command line, just generating
a new version of the file:
perl -p -i -e "s/\cM//"
The one downside is that it'll get you a new record for embedded linefeeds,
though that's relatively uncommon. Fixing that's a touch more complex, but
certainly doable.
Dan
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