From: Kaspar Schiess <eule@...>
Date: 2004-06-09T19:39:14+09:00
Subject: Re: strip DOS ^Ms?

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Dick Davies wrote:

| 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....
|

I recommend the tool suite called
dos2unix
unix2dos
mac2unix
unix2mac
on unixes. They are even included in the msys toolkit. The ^M's are
superfluous line returns (don't remember which of '\n' or '\r').

Just convert your file to unix line endings using
dos2unix

The CP-conversion tool recode also supports this. And every other
editor. Actually gvim and vim seem to have the setting
set ff=[one of 'dos', 'unix' or 'mac'].

So just doing ':', 'set ff=unix' will initiate conversion.

Don't gsub. That is the way to madness.

kaspar

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