Thats ^M character.
You can get rid of them using vi: :%s/^M//g
Cheers,
Parag
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Mark <herrpoe...@hailmail.net> wrote:
> On 9/30/10 10:59 PM, Chas. Owens wrote:
>
>> The only thing I can do to reproduce what you are seeing is to place a
>> control-d (aka ASCII character 4) in the file. Try saying this
>>
>> echo 'print "hello\n"' | perl -
>>
>> If that works, then try this:
>>
>> perl -nle 'print for grep { $_< 31 or $_> 126 } map ord, split //' t.pl
>>
>> It will tell use what control characters may be lurking in that file of
>> yours.
>>
>
> AH HA! When you mentioned control characters, I wondered if my text editor
> -- BBEdit -- was causing the problem. It must have been, because when I copy
> & pasted the code from BBEdit into Emacs, suddenly the script ran perfectly
> in iTerm. Problem apparently solved. Thanks, everyone!
>
> - Mark
>
