Re: A 'strange' character("^M") of contrasting color appearing unexpededly at the end of lines of a unix file. How can it be removed?

Using the chop function

When reading files from Windows on UNIX it is often useful to:

local $/ = "\r\n";
chomp $string;
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(rather than chop)

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Re^2: A 'strange' character("^M") of contrasting color appearing unexpededly at the end of lines of a unix file. How can it be removed? by Anonyrnous Monk (Hermit) on Dec 14, 2010 at 18:20 UTC
or even use the `":crlf"` PerlIO layer to automatically translate `\r\n` <—> `\n`. On Windows, the layer is active by default, which is why the "^M problem" does not occur. But there's nothing that would keep you from using it on Unix, too, in case you need to handle Windows-style files.	[reply] [d/l] [select]