Editing Text file - need to replace ^M (ascii 13)

Capt'n Midnight · 28-08-2003 03:37PM #1

I've a file that I need to import.

Only problem is it uses ^K as end of line and ^M as end of record.

It's easy enough to change the ^K to a ^J and it sorta looks ok ^M^J would be better though.

And the editors I usually use can't tell the difference between pressing enter and ALT-13

(Have tried Control-P followed by Control-M - this used to work )

So any one know a good text editer that will allow replacement of any of the 256 asciii chars ?? or any other trick I can use ??

(I've tried Excel / open office import but records get trucated at 255 bytes

)

(back in the 80's I'd have used sidekick but it don't run on windows and anyway the file is too big.)

Capt'n Midnight · 28-08-2003 04:42PM

http://www.winvi.de/en/download.html

Quigs Snr · 28-08-2003 04:43PM

Another one you could use is VEDIT

sceptre · 28-08-2003 09:00PM

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
http://www.winvi.de/en/download.html

Ah, Vi, the programmer's torture of choice.

I can't stand it myself but maybe the windows version doesn't cause you to tear out hair and throw things

crowbar · 28-08-2003 09:00PM

i swear by editplus for my windows text editing needs. best text editor ever, has almost everything i've ever wanted to do with text.

Capt'n Midnight · 29-08-2003 08:08AM

It is basically Notepad with a few extra buttons.

It's also GNU and comes with source code.

it is a notepad replacement - which allows you to view, edit / replace in ASCII , EBDIC and HEX

niggles - you can't replace until you've done a find
and if the replacement string contains more than one copy of the search string it may go into a loop (just click cancel)

MiCr0 · 29-08-2003 08:41AM

to remove this in unix anyway..............

vi file_name.blah

Press escape
Then
:
%
s
/
ctrl-v ctrl-m (which will produce ^M)
//
g

The line should look like
:%s/^M//g

and press enter

Editing Text file - need to replace ^M (ascii 13)

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