Re: Control M ????

["Josh Perlmutter" <buttermaker@hotmail.com>]

for some reason my last reply got screwed up and didn't go tot he list.

for those interested, there's a little perl script i have that fixes this 
problem.
http://comp20.eecs.tufts.edu/jperlmut/
"clean.pl"

dl the instructions too. it's all there. that is from the cross enrollment 
course  i took. i'm suprised they haven't taken it down.


anyway, a lot of students at deis write progs one their windows boxes and 
the ftp them to their cs account. one of my friends wrote the script to get 
rid of those pesky ^M characters without doing the manual work.

-Josh


>From: kabir.patel@uk.andersen.com
>To: me@rupey.net
>CC: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
>Subject: Control M ????
>Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:07:56 +0000
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>Some time back I mentioned a problem I had with the ^M character (see 
>below).
>It so happens that I need to be able to replace every ^M in my resultant 
>file
>with a " " charachter.
>GNU isn't happy with ^M. Is there a way to define ^M in another way?
>
>Thanks in advance
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>Kabir Patel wrote:
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> > Line 9469  while((pChar=strchr(Uwel_notes1.str,'^M'))!=NULL)
> > Line 9470             *(pChar) = *" ";
>
>Embedding a character 13 into the source is horrible and, as it happens,
>is causing this problem. (I also don't like the next line: there's no
>point dereferencing a constant string just for a space! This isn't a
>really bug, though - just style.)
>
>Try:
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>     while((pChar=strchr(Uwel_notes1.str,'\r'))!=NULL)
>                *(pChar) = ' ';
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>The problem was that the compiler was interpreting the ^M as a line
>break and not a character constant. It was trying to compile:
>
>     while((pChar=strchr(Uwel_notes1.str,'
>     '))!=NULL)
>
>and single-quoted constants may not cross line boundaries.
>
>Rup.
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Brandeis University


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