Since emacs is being used why not using emacs' buildin serep function? Macro:
M-< ;; beginning-of-buffer M-% ;; query-replace C-q ;; quoted-insert C-m ;; newline 2*RET ;; newline ! ;; self-insert-command Stefan -----Original Message----- From: _brian_d_foy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 5:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: perl script to remove control M's In article <OFC37CFF55.39E829E6-ON86256B1A.004E73D7@com>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent Michalski) wrote: > I always like to simply use: > > perl -pi -e 's/\r//' <filename(s)> you have to be careful with that though because it's not portable. \r means different things to different OSes :) perl -pi -e 's/\cM//' <filename(s)> -- brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Perl services for hire CGI Meta FAQ - http://www.perl.org/CGI_MetaFAQ.html Troubleshooting CGI scripts - http://www.perl.org/troubleshooting_CGI.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]