right - my bad. what i mean, not what i say! thanks rob.
-Tom Kinzer -----Original Message----- From: Rob Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 3:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to remove a ^M charaters from a variable 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> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
