From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-06-09T19:57:22+09:00
Subject: Re: strip DOS ^Ms?

* Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> [0624 11:24]:
> 
> "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

They're not at end of line though, they're just scattered through the
lines... and vi/dos2unix  isn't an option , I'm doing this on a string
on its way from the webserver to REXML...

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