[wplug] Converting Line Terminations

[jsbillings at mac.com]

While the perl is technically correct, it would be just as easy to do
this:

perl -pi -e "s/\r//" filename


On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 11:19, Peter Williams wrote:
> Hey look, it's something I can reply to! : )
> *comes out of lurking*
> 
> To set this up in perl, you'd use the following:
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> 
> $filename = $ARGV[0];
> open (FILE, $filename);
> @file = <FILE>;
> close(FILE);
> foreach $line (@file) { $line =~ s/\r//; }
> $file2 = join ("", @file);
> open (FILE2, ">$filename.fixed");
> print FILE2 $file2;
> close(FILE2);
> 1;
> 
> 
> Dos/Win newline is \n\r
> *nix uses only the \n
> 
> There's also a text editor I'm really attached to when using Win, 
> which lets you convert between dos and *nix formats with one 
> double-click (and others may offer a similar feature).  It's called the 
> Programmer's File Editor, created by Alan Phillips:
> http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe
> Even though they aren't continuing development anymore, it's a 
> solid program with lots of great features.  Beats out Notepad or 
> Wordpad easily.
> 
> Hope this helps.  (And sorry if someone beat me to this, I get the 
> digest)
> 
> All the best,
> Peter
> 
> 
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