On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 09:05, Glenn Cannon wrote: > Not strictly a perl question, I know, but... > > I have been writing and testing my perl script on a WinXP box, and I > have now moved it to its final home on a linux box. When I run perl -c > scriptname, I get the following: > > Illegal character \015 (carriage return) at index.pl line 2. > (Maybe you didn't strip carriage returns after a network transfer?) > > Is there a simple way to prevent/cure this? > > Glenn
perl -ine 's/\015//g;print' filename or use dos2unix or d2u or ftp it again, but this time make sure it is in ASCII mode. -- Today is Prickle-Prickle the 21st day of Discord in the YOLD 3168 Keep the Lasagna flying! Missile Address: 33:48:3.521N 84:23:34.786W -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
