Hello, I don't think that the file matters. You say it's a massive line. To read a file you should first open it. Look at PerlDoc.
"Desmond Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi guys > > I'm trying to read a file, but it's just one massive line. I think that the > ^M is suppose to be an indication that that's wehre teh newline is suppose > to be. I've tried to replace ^M with a newline by executing something that i > found on the web: > > perl -pi.bak -e 's/\^M/\n/g' moby_threads_install.txt > > > This didn't work. Even in vi when i do a search for ^M by doing '/^M' it > says that no matches were found. The ^M is not two characters but one. Can > anyone out there please help me? > > Thanks > > Desmond > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
