From: Michael Monaghan <mickmon@...>
Date: 2008-11-29T05:07:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Removing ^M character from text

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Hi John,
str = "123^M56"
newstr = str.sub(/^M/, '')

Note - for the substitution, you enter the '^M' character using Ctrl+v+m (-
or at least I do on Solaris.)

~mm

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 2:57 PM, John Victor <john@sflistdb.com> wrote:

> I have some text that I just realized is screwing everything up because
> it contains the ^M character (control-M). I have tried using all kinds
> of regexp expressions to find and remove it but it is evasive :-)
>
> What is the best way to find and remove the pesky ^M character from
> text?
>
> vic
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