Depending on platform, the \n sequence is converted by perl to: 

Unix: octal \012       hex 0xA      dec 10      LF      may be \n
Dos:  octal \015\012   hex 0xD0xA   dec 13 10   CRLF    may be \r\n
Max:  octal \015       hex 0xD      dec 13      CR      may be \r

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Although perl works for you trying to allow you to just use \n as your newline delimiter and let it sort the platform dependent details, many common *internet protocols* specify the \015\012 sequence and unfortunately the values of Perl's \n and \r are not reliable since they can and do vary across platforms.

I suspect that $textfield is named from its HTML source so you will probably want to use a truly portable solution like this: 

  $textfield =~ s/\015\012|\015|\012//g;

  If you prefer hex to octal :-)

  $textfield =~ s/\xD\xA|\xD|\xA//g;

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If you are confused by the \012 or \xA notation all this is saying to perl is what I want you to match is the ASCII char decimal 10 == octal 12 == hex A == binary 1010 

  In expanded commented /x form:

  $textfield =~ s/         # substitute
                \015\012   # a CRLF sequence (DOS, MIME...)
                |          # or
                \015       # a lone LF (mac)
                |          # or   
                \012       # a lone LF (unix)
                /          # with literal ''
                /xg;       # /x allow comments, /g do globally

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tachyon

In reply to Re: How do I remove carriage returns from scalars? by tachyon
in thread How do I remove carriage returns from scalars? by bazfaz

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