[GRASSLIST:2946] Re: data imput

Glynn Clements glynn.clements at virgin.net
Sun Mar 14 19:36:21 EST 2004


Martin O'Loughlin wrote:

>   I just opened the file in Vi and between every group of items is a 
> <ctrl>M, would this be the problem?

Yes. ^M (aka CR, "carriage return", '\r', ASCII 13) is the old Mac
line separator. Unix uses ^J (aka LF, "line feed", '\n', ASCII 10).

You can convert the file with:

	tr '\r' '\n' < oldfile > newfile

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>




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