> -----Original Message----- > From: Ankur Gupta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 2:48 PM > To: Dave Adams > Cc: beginners perl > Subject: Re: Looking for perl scripts to remove ^M > > On 9/23/2005 11:28 PM Dave Adams wrote: > > > Sometimes I get perl scripts that were developed on windows and then > > brought over to UNIX and the scripts contain all the pesky > > metacharacters of ^M and excessive blank lines. > > > > Does anyone have a simple script to clean these files up or suggestions? > > If you are using vi/vim as your editor then this is the good way to deal > with it.. > > :%s/.$//
This could also remove _any_ single characters just before the EOL that aren't ^M. I know it's rare, but I've come across half-DOS, half-UNIX text files like this where some EOLs had the DOS EOL char and some didn't (I have no idea why other than someone was previously trying to remove them...). > > will remove the last *pesky* character(^M) from all lines.... > > But as Chris said, did you try anything so far... > > -- > Ankur > > -- > 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>
