From: djberg96@... (Daniel Berger)
Date: 2004-06-09T23:03:50+09:00
Subject: Re: strip DOS ^Ms?

Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> wrote in message 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....

See "ptools", available on the RAA or at http://ruby-miscutils.sf.net.
 Look for the File.nl_convert method. :)

Regards,

Dan