Re: control-M

These aren't text files, there form fields from a browser and fields from query. I don't think dos2unix will be of much help with this. Dave On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 09:07 +0300, Petar Nedyalkov wrote: > On Thursday 05 May 2005 06:13, David Christensen wrote: > > I know I'm missing something, but I can't seem to find it or figure it > > out. I've done the google search, and I've done a quick scan of the > > list archives, but I can't seem to find the right way to remove > > control-M from a form submission page with textarea fields. > > > > I have a series of "textarea" fields that can/and do contain the dreaded > > ^M characters. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to remove > > them before I save them to the database, and how to remove the ones that > > are all ready stored there when I query them back to the browser from a > > web page. Also, if I do remove them, how do I make sure I format the > > text correctly when I push it back to the browser as the default values > > of these fields? > > There's a tool called dos2unix - use it. > > > > > Point me to the elixir of knowledge and let me bath in the fortitude of > > a master regex expression to rid me once and for all of the dreaded > > ^M!!! > > > > Thank you, and good night! > > > > "That's why I won't do 2 shows! I won't do it!" >