Re: Handling ^M's in text files

From: Peter van Rijn <pgm.van.rijnRM_at_THIShccnet.nl>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:04:36 +0200
Message-ID: <ap6v7f$t57$1@news.hccnet.nl>

Just prevent it by ftp-ing in ascii mode.

Peter

"Ubiquitous" <weberm_at_polaris.net> schreef in bericht news:ap6ub5$int$1_at_news.utelfla.com...
> I'm sure this is a silly question, but sometimes when one FTPs
> files bewteen a DOS and UNIX environment, the "end of line"
> markers show up as "^M" in the file. Is there a utl_file
> package one can use to scrub these from a file? I sppse one
> could rewrite the file sans the last character, but one would
> then have to test for "^M" to keep from dropping characters
> without the markers in it...
>
>
Received on Wed Oct 23 2002 - 15:04:36 CDT