On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:56:58 +0100, Elie Moujaes <elie.moujaes at hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > Is thins a sign that something is going wrong there?
It depends on the editor you have used to create the file. Normally the ^M are harmless (they are windows-style line termination, which most compilers can digest). In order to get rid of them you can eitehr used dos2unix (a command-line utility) or with the following command: cat -v input.file |sed -e 's/\^M'//g' -e 's/M-//g' > input2.file it will create a file called input2.file which does not contain any "strange characters" and will also remove the "M-", which I have no idea what they were, but are probably the real cause of the error. -- Lorenzo Paulatto *** Note: my affiliation has changed! please send future correspondence to: <Lorenzo.Paulatto at impmc.upmc.fr> *** post-doc @ IMPMC/UPMC - Universit? Paris 6 phone: +33 (0)1 44 27 74 89 www: http://www-int.impmc.upmc.fr/~paulatto/ previously: phd student @ SISSA & DEMOCRITOS (Trieste) phone: +39 040 3787 511 www: http://people.sissa.it/~paulatto/
