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(warning) Re: RE: Line Ending Converter

by bikeNomad (Priest)
on Jun 04, 2001 at 19:52 UTC ( [id://85513]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to RE: Line Ending Converter
in thread Line Ending Converter

The code:

perl -pi -e 's![\012\015]{1,2}!$/!g' file

will not work right for mac->unix, mac->dos or unix->mac, because two consecutive \015 or \012 chars will be converted into single ones. So if you have blank lines, they'll get eaten. A safer alternative (though perhaps not an optimal RE) is:

perl -pi -e 's!(?:\015\012?|\012)!$/!g' file

update: added safer alternative, made RE 17% faster

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