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Re: [FWP] japh

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 12:09:25PM -0400, Joey Mitchell Comeau wrote:
> 
> 
> perl -e 'print" " x15 ."rl Hacker,\x0d"." "x5 ."Another Pe\x0dJust\n"'
> 
> 
> This stems from an annoying file I had to parse this morning, with an 0d
> at the end of every line. I couldn't figure out what the hell was wrong
> with the output. 
> 	What is 0d for, anyway?

\x0d is a carriage return, aka \r.  It means 'return to the beginning of
the current line'.

Windows uses \r\n as a line terminator, whereas Unix uses \n.


You can remove carriage returns in Unix with:

perl -pi -e 'tr/\r//d';


Ronald

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