[wplug] vi question

[Doms, Robert S]

I use this perl script to fix the ^M issue.  It creates a file
filename.strip that is ^M free.  I then copy the .strip file back over the
original file.  The script removes the first character preceeding a newline.
In this case, the ^M.  Hope it helps.

Scott


strip_ems.pl


#!/usr/local/bin/perl

if( $#ARGV != 0 ) {
    print"\n\aCaution!  This file will remove *ALL* characters imediately
preceeding a newline!!";
    print"\nUsage: strip_ems [ filename ]\n\n";
}
open( FD, "<$ARGV[0]" );
open( OUTD, ">$ARGV[0].strip" );
while( <FD> ) {
    $_ =~ s/.$//;
    print OUTD $_;
}



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Harrold [SMTP:jmh17 at pitt.edu]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 03, 2003 11:21 AM
> To:	wplug at wplug.org
> Subject:	Re: [wplug] vi question
> 
> Sometime in July Scott Eicher assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> 
> | 
> | For you vi users I have a question:
> | 
> | I would like to delete all ^M control characters from an ascii file.
> Here is
> | what I tried to accomplish this but it doesn't work:
> | 
> | :%s/\^M//g
> | 
> 
> instead of the carrot+M combination try ctrl+q ctrl+m. this should stick a
> little blue, or whatever color, ^M there. 
> 
> | It gives me this message:
> | 
> | Substitute pattern match failed
> | 
> | I'm thinking that I'm not specifying the ^M properly but I'm not sure
> how
> | else to specify it.
> | 
> | Any help would be appreciated.
> | 
> | Thanks,
> | Scott
> 
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