Tom Kinzer wrote: > > tr/015//; This will do nothing to the string. It will just return the number of zero, one and five characters it finds.
Control-M is "\cM" or "\x0D" or "\015" or "\r" To get 'tr' to delete the characters it finds you need the /d modifier. tr/\015//d will do the trick. Cheers, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
