Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 17:35:27 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Christopher Rosado <chris@topher.gintera.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dos2unix??? Message-ID: <20030416173147.Y23561@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <200304152334.26957.chris@topher.gintera.net> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030415085340.01bae4a0@mail.servplex.com> <200304152334.26957.chris@topher.gintera.net>
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Christopher Rosado wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 15 April 2003 04:46 pm, Warren Block wrote: > > > Um... ^M would mean an M at the start of a line. This should be > > > > s/\r//g; > > Try pressing CTRL-V then CTRL-M in vi ... the result is ^M as a control > character. I use s/^M//g quite frequently. I try to avoid unprintable characters in programs because, well, they're unprintable. \r is less typing, doesn't screw up when you print it to paper, and won't be confused with a beginning-of-line anchor and a capital M. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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