On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:24:38PM -0700, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
> I have a file that has many, many, many long lines, each with many sets
> of data, each set being separated by many spaces, each instance of which
> is ended by character 0x013, kinda like:
> data ^Mdata ^Mdata ^Mdata ^Mdata ^M
> but the spaces before the ^M are about 77 in number (seems to be
> consistent), and the data strings are longer, containing several
> elements, each separated by either one, two, or three spaces. If I can
> match on any number of spaces ("[ ]*") which are immediately followed by
> 0x013 (^M) and replace each instance with a newline, I'll be set (almost
> certainly).
DOS follows some international standard that mandates line endings of /r/n.
Linux uses just /n.
So you don't want to replace /r with a newline because you'll have 2 /n's
ending every line.
Just replace /r with nothing.
Chris
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