Click here to get back home

PERL MAP HELP
 Home | NewsGroups | Search | About
Login Password
Register Now!
 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
PERL MAP HELP Subra 01-19-2008
---> Re: PERL MAP HELP Brian McCauley01-19-2008
Get Chitika Premium
Posted by Subra on January 19, 2008, 7:03 am
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

Posted by Brian McCauley on January 19, 2008, 8:58 am
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

Posted by Subra on January 20, 2008, 9:13 am
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
PERL to mean what 'perldoc perl' says is wrong? (was: Re: perl should be improved and perl6) April 14, 2008, 11:37 pm
FAQ 3.0: What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org? October 31, 2004, 12:03 pm
FAQ 3.0 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org? February 2, 2005, 12:03 pm
FAQ 2.18 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org? March 28, 2005, 12:03 am
FAQ 2.18 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org? June 12, 2005, 11:03 am
FAQ 2.18 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org? August 29, 2005, 10:03 pm
FAQ 2.18 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org? October 28, 2005, 10:03 pm
FAQ 2.18 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org? December 25, 2005, 5:03 am
FAQ 2.17 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org? January 8, 2006, 11:03 pm
FAQ 2.18 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org? January 16, 2006, 11:03 pm

Our other projects:

Art Dolls, Fairies and Mermaids - Sunnyfaces.net

Roy's Linux, Programming and Search Engines messages

1-Script XML SitemapXML Sitemap