From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2008-11-29T10:06:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Removing ^M character from text

John Victor wrote:
> Thanks alot everyone...I got it working.
> 
> I never realized how badly ^M was screwing me up all these years when 
> trying to match with regular expressions. I wish there was a way to see 
> all the end of the line characters, carriage returns and new line 
> without having to guess if they exist and using trial and error for 
> hours when doing regexp matches.
> 
> vic
> 

On Linux, OS X, and other *ix systems, you can use cat -v. In Ruby, 
String#inspect will show special characters escaped, so you can just use

p str

to see special characters. A newline shows up as "\n", for example.

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