> 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/$/\r/ > will append a carriage return to the end of line. > > the utility 'fromdos' is a convenient filter for removing them.
Nifty, didn't know that. I did this from the command line and it took them out: sed s/\\r$// foo.txt -Ken _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
