On 10-10-04 10:03 AM, Bob McConnell wrote:
That's strange. I have been using the first version of this to get rid
of ^M for about 26 years now with no problems whatsoever. I used it on
Eunice (NCR Unix) long before I even knew Perl existed. I didn't think
my memory was that far off.

Actually, you're both right.  From man tr:

"SET2 is extended to length of SET1 by repeating its last character as necessary."

In this case, it would work but not in general.


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