Microsoft operating systems use different characters for line endings than unix boxes. I believe it is the equivalent to the UNIX \r\n.
-----Original Message----- From: Jo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 4:43 PM To: PerlBeginners Subject: Processing text Hey all, I'm kind of new to perl and i've come accross a problem: I have a large text file with fields separated by pipes which should appear as: ABIT|GC|MX200|nVIDIA GeForce 2 MX200 32MB AGP Card|75.00|74.00|73.00|10%|99.00 However alot of entries are split over 2 lines like this: ABIT|MB|BD7-RAID|S478/I845D/ATX/AGP/6PCI/AC97/2 DDR/400FSB/1CNR/133 RAID*2|239.00|CALL|CALL|10%|299.00 I wrote a small perl script to split the lines by a pipe into an array, and if the array size was less than a certain value, join it with the next line. To test the script i copied a few paragraphs from the big text file to test on. When i ran the script on the small file, it sorted everything perfectly. But whenever i ran the script on the full file it always came out wrong, after a few hours of frustration, i ended up copying the entire file and pasting it to a new file. After running the script on the new file, it sorted it fine?? The original file was saved on a windows machine, and i copy/pasted it through a linux text editor. I noticed when i edit the original file using vi, down the bottom next to the file name is [dos]. Im thinking this has something to do with it. Thanks in advance for any help or ideas that some of you may have, Jo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
