nasty Newlines

[Siberdude]

Howdy all. I just moved from a IIS box to a unix one. i used to be able to deal with newlines with:

$mevar =~ /\n//gi;

but on the unix box this doesn't work! the \n char coems up as a square box and i can't for the life of me figure how to get rid of the bloody thing, so i can then use the flatfile dat db i was on the old box. it never makes a match now, because its seeing my read-in vars as "var\n" instead of "var". Much pain in the arse!

Thanks
Sib
Siberdude
siberdude@settlers.co.uk

http://settlers.co.uk

 

[goBoating]

Sounds like your files may be DOS formatted with a carriage return (\r) and a new line (\n). You will need to get rid of both. You can use the Perl 'chomp' function or match it with '\r\n'.


HTH



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