Vi substitution question?

[mark at buttery.org (Mark J. Dulcey)]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Phil Buckley wrote:

> I just had a windows guy muck up a perl file and now each line ends
with the dreaded "^M".
> 
> My problem is I try to run :1,$s/^M//g but it doesn't seem to see the
^M's, is there a key combo I should be using besides the carrot on top of
my 6 key to put in that "^" ?

Those things shown as "^M" are really carriage return characters (decimal
character code 13), not the sequence "caret M".

You can match that in a number of ways: \r (carriage return), \015 (octal
character escape), or \x0d (hexadecimal character escape). So s/\r//g
should do the trick.


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