Hey Monks,

I wrote a script at work today where I read from a csv file, and an html file, did some data manipulation, and spit it back out to another csv file. All was fine except I had the darn ^M chars at the end of my line. I know they are carriage returns, but I don't know why they decided to show up. I initially thought it was the way I was reading the file, so I tried two methods.

First I tried slurping. But I got the ^Ms. Then I tried reading the file line by line and chomping each one. Still, control ^Ms. Then my coworker started asking me what the hang-up was and I had to make do with what I had. It was a frustrating day to say the least.

I was hoping someone may know what the dillio is on this one. I've been developing with Strawberry Perl on Windows 7 of late, but I don't think that's what it was. I think it may have had to do with not chopming off the new lines chars.

Ideas?

In reply to ^M chars in output file by locust

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