From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-06-09T19:23:41+09:00
Subject: Re: strip DOS ^Ms?


"Dick Davies" <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20040609094700.GA21180@lb.tenfour...
>
> Me again. I have chosen one of the crappiest websites on Gods
> green Earth to scrape here....
>
> For no good reason I have buttloads of '^M's all over the file
> when I check it in vi. What would I feed gsub to strip them out?
> Otherwise I'm looking at a very very long regex to yank out the
> fields  I need....

while ( line = gets )
  line.chomp!
  p line # no more \r\n at end
end

    robert