On 1/21/06, Bowen, Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know how to get rid of the carriage returns using s/\n//g, but
> haven't had any luck in finding the way to get rid of the line feeds
> following the |fs.
Have you tried using a substitution? A line feed is often the
character "\x0A", in cas
On Jan 21, 2006, at 21:43, Bowen, Bruce wrote:
Perhaps that file has mixed newline conventions? Does
$entire_file_content =~ tr/\015\012//d;
do what you need?
-- fxn
That did not work. I've looked into the file with a hex editor it
that's telling me there's a
hex 0D 0A 0D 0A after ea
On Jan 21, 2006, at 17:28, Bowen, Bruce wrote:
I have files with this format
text
text
|fs
text
text
text
|fs
The goal here is to make this data into a flat file of continuous
text (including the |fs).texttext|fstexttexttext|fs
I know how to get rid of the carriage returns using s/\n/
Bowen, Bruce wrote:
I know how to get rid of the carriage returns using s/\n//g,
> but haven't had any luck in finding the way to get rid
> of the line feeds following the |fs.
Sorry, \n means a line feed. Try:
s/\n//g; # Remove line feeds
s/\r//g; # Remove carriage returns
See:
perldoc p
