On 30/01/13 02:53, John McGlynn wrote:
Hi Vim,
I have a load of csv files in which some rows have an arrow at the end.
The arrow seems to have been made using Windows ALT 26.
It shows up in Vim as ^Z^M.
Can anyone tell me how to remove these pesky objects?
Thanks,
John
You already got several replies about how to remove them.
Those Ctrl-Z characters are a leftover from DOS "ASCII" mode, where they
signaled end-of-file. When reading a file, DOS used to disregard the
Ctrl-Z and everything after it. This peculiarity was used when typing in
a file at the console (to be read via a < redirection): the user typed
Ctrl-Z to signal the end of data and come back to the command prompt.
The Ctrl-M is a carriage return, which may have been added by some
program unaware of the special meaning of the Ctrl-Z.
Best regards,
Tony.
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