Click here to get back home

FAQ 1.8 Is Perl difficult to learn?

 HomeNewsGroups | Search | About
 comp.lang.perl.misc    Post an article   get this group's latest topics as an RSS feed add this group's latest topics to your My MSN content add this group's latest topics to your My Yahoo content
Subject Author Date
FAQ 1.8 Is Perl difficult to learn? PerlFAQ Server 08-11-2005
Posted by PerlFAQ Server on August 11, 2005, 10:03 pm
Please log in for more thread options
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> > if I print "$1\n",
>> > the file prints just fine. But, if I do something like print "$1 after
>> > \n", the whole output is messed up. If I print "before $1\n", nothing
>> > prints at all. If I print "before $1 after\n", only after prints.
>>
>> not really sure, but could be a rogue "\r" in $1,


> There
> is a rogue carriage return (0xd) in the string

> Is there something I can do to deal with this
> situation?


Repair the corrupted file:

perl -p -i -e 'tr/\r//d' bad_file


--
Tad McClellan SGML consulting
tadmc@augustmail.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas

Similar ThreadsPosted
FAQ 1.8: Is Perl difficult to learn? December 3, 2004, 12:03 pm
FAQ 1.8 Is Perl difficult to learn? January 11, 2005, 6:03 am
FAQ 1.8 Is Perl difficult to learn? April 8, 2005, 11:03 am
FAQ 1.8 Is Perl difficult to learn? June 24, 2005, 5:03 am
FAQ 1.8 Is Perl difficult to learn? October 26, 2005, 4:03 pm
FAQ 1.8 Is Perl difficult to learn? November 19, 2005, 5:03 pm
FAQ 1.8 Is Perl difficult to learn? January 7, 2006, 5:03 am
FAQ 1.8 Is Perl difficult to learn? January 21, 2006, 12:03 pm
FAQ 1.8 Is Perl difficult to learn? February 24, 2006, 12:03 pm
FAQ 1.8 Is Perl difficult to learn? March 9, 2006, 9:03 pm

Our other projects:

Art Dolls, Fairies and Mermaids - Sunnyfaces.net

Roy's Linux, Programming and Search Engines messages

1-Script XML SitemapXML Sitemap