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:%s/^V^M
oh, you meant perl...
perl -ibak -pe 's/\r//' README.DOS
Update: I actually wanted the title to be vi roolz, but it turns out you can't have html tags in titles, which meant that the title was munged. Fixed now.

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Re: Removing Control Characters
by zigster (Hermit) on Feb 22, 2001 at 19:33 UTC

    OUTSTANDING!!!

    I love PM I really do, how did I not know about -i, what a cool and goovey flag. It is times like this when I just boggle at perl, how can one language be so versitile.

    Ignore my node later raj8 this is a far better way of doing what you want. Although I would recomend the $ in the regexp: 

    
perl -ibak -pe 's/\r$//' README.DOS

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    Zigster
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Re: ttvi/tt Rooolzzz
by asmodai (Novice) on Feb 22, 2001 at 19:56 UTC

    Although most of the time you want to use:

    :%s/^V^M//g

    --Jeroen/Asmodai

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