original message from Dylan Reinhardt follows: > So I'm stripping illegal chars out of some text with a regex. But I'm > left with a bunch of ^M chars that seem to function as line breaks. > Anyone know what string escape code corresponds to this char and/or any > good way to catch it in a regex?
usually it's '\r' for 'carriage return' for example, using vi, :s/$/\r/ will append a carriage return to the end of line. the utility 'fromdos' is a convenient filter for removing them. -- William Hunt, Portland Oregon USA _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
