PERL Programming - Re: chomp pb when using linux

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Re: chomp pb when using linux

d0x

2004-06-26, 8:55 pm

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:27:01 +0200, Sylvain wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a problem running a script on Linux system (it used to work on HP
> and Solaris) because a return character in Linux is actually (Ctrl M +
> Ctrl J), chomp get rid only of Ctrl J however. My question was the
> following:
> Is there a way ( such as a 'use something;' or defining a special
> variable) to make chomp work correctly?
>
> Regards
>
> Sylvain

I use this to remove the trailling ^M in windows docs.. You can apply the
same / slightly altered formula to your script.

$content =~ s/^M//g;
## Note that is not a regular ^M. to type it correctly type in <CONTROL+V>
then <CONTROL+M>.. on the screen should appear ^M in bold.

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