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Re: How do I handle mid-line carriage returns in a flatfile database?

by btrott (Parson)
on Mar 30, 2000 at 09:47 UTC ( [id://6513]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How do I handle mid-line carriage returns in a flatfile database?

I believe you should be able to just do something like this: 
$entry =~ tr/\r//d;

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This will strip every carriage return from $entry. Alternatively, you may wish to replace carriage returns with spaces (so that you don't get words running together): 
$entry =~ tr/\r/ /;

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I'd recommend the latter.

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Re: Answer: How do I handle mid-line carriage returns in a flatfile database?
by Sol-Invictus (Scribe) on Feb 06, 2004 at 14:12 UTC
    I think it's worthwhile pointing out that "\n" really means the local end of line marker, local as in the computer the script is run on.

    This is not a fixed standard as the following shows:
    Unix/Linux/OSX use \012
    Win/DOS usually uses \015\012 for text IO

    So running a script under (Uni|Linu|OS)X containing  tr/\n// on a file written on windows won't behave the way you might think.

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