[ic] Removing carriage returns from description

[Stefan Hornburg]

On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 17:14:33 -0500
DB <DB at m-and-d.com> wrote:

> I'm sure this has come up before.. I think I even figured it out once.
> 
> A supplier provided me with a product database in csv format. I can 
> import it into Excel or Access and it is formatted ok. But the 
> description fields contain carriage returns (I think that's what they 
> are) which show up as squares. These are causing problems when I try to 
> export to a text file. How can I remove these pesky critters? I've tried 
> many things such as fromdos in linux but can't quite get what I want. 
> Any hints? magic perl snippets?

Backup FILE first, and then run:

perl -i -pe 's/\r//g' FILE

This will remove all carriage returns from the file.

Ciao
	Racke


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