From: Rob Coops > That ^M is a line feed, or well the windows version of a line feed.
Actually, it is an ASCII CR or carriage return. Microsoft uses CR/LF for end of line, where Unixen use just LF. Apple used something else, but may have changed when they switched to OSX. I used tr to clean it up, much like dos2unix does. I think the command was: $ tr "\r\n" "\n" < badfile > goodfile Bob McConnell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/