[ale] some other regexp

[Mike Fletcher]

>>>>> "Ryan" == Ryan Bridges <reb at techie.com> writes:

    Ryan> I need to strip the Linefeeds out of a file.  I discovered
    Ryan> that this is not a newline (\n) but something else.  I have

	*) Figure out what character it is you do have (od -ca can be 
           useful to do this)

	*) Strip that character.

	For example, if you wanted to remove ^M's from a DOS style
text file you'd do:


perl -i.bak -pe 's/\cM+$//' foo.txt


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