Re: I have a CR-LF problem when pulling stuff out of my DB

I found part of the answer...... when doing a search in vim you can hit ctrl-m as long as you hit ctrl-v first. ctrl-v tells vim to treat the following as a character, not to do the action i.e... carriage return. Now I need just one more piece, if anyone has the answer: ctrl-m is a carriage return. Does anyone know what ctrl seqence is line feed? Thanks On Thursday 19 August 2004 09:49 am, Michael Cortes wrote: > That didn't work. Here's why. This is not a dos file. It is a unix file > but when dumping the data from my db, some fields had a trailing CR and LF. > So what I ended up with was a ^M showing in the middle of a line when I > open the file in vim. And... the lines will also end where they shouldn't. > What is supposed to be one line, then continues on the next. > > While dos2unix did strip out the ^m, it left the LF (is it return or > linefeed in unix) at the end of the line, starting a new one. > > I need to actually do a search on ^M followed by LF and replace it with > nothing so I get my full line back. But I don't know how to enter in LF or > CR in a vim search string. > > Hope this clarifies..... > -- Michael Cortes Fort LeBoeuf School District 34 East Ninth Street PO Box 810 Waterford PA 16441-0810 814.796.4795