Re: what is ^M at the end of a line?

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Remy Guo <[email protected]> wrote:

> it's really interesting... then how can i match that ^M using regex?
> i've tried "chomp" when reading each line but it doesn't work...

That's "\r" everywhere except in Macs before Mac OS X. Some programs
display "\r" as "^M" but that's just a way to show it, there's really
just one character.

I you'd like to order the ideas about how newlines work have a look at
this article:

   http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/08/17/understanding-newlines.html

-- fxn