The bloody ^M character stems from a everybody having their own way of
terminating a line. In the days of the typewriter, you had to have a
new line and then a carriage return. Well, in winders that's still how
they do things. They end their lines with \n\r which is newline -
carriage return. Very pesky under *nix. Solution? Just parse for the
\r's and it should solve your problem. I've seen this a lot when using
text boxes off a web page that were not set to soft wrap. But, anyway,
something like this should work for you:
s/\r$//;
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>
> This is for newbies, right? Can anyone tell me why a s/^M//g
> won't get rid of the annoying ^M on the end of each line of
> an imported Paradox database? Is there a better way? I know
> this has to be simple, yet I can find no reference in my
> plethora of Perl books.
> TIA for any and all help - you guys are great and I
> appreciate the time you all put into this effort to help
> folks like me :-)
>
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