Replacing control characters.

[Greg Jorgensen]

Use an editor that does this for you (EditPlus on Windows, for
example), or can do it easily (vi/vim on Linux or Windows). That's the
most efficient way. A text editor that cares about line ending
variations in this decade is lame (unless you really care about the
various flavors of line endings).


In article <94ifec$ggt$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,
  johnvert at my-deja.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to replace actual Ctrl keys that are in files.  For example, I
> saved in Netscape (Linux) an HTML file and when I open it in a text
> editor there are a bunch of ^M characters around (probably because the
> file was processed on Windows, which uses a different line ending for
> textfiles--right?).  I want to remove all of these characters, but
since
> it's not an actual caret (^) and a letter M, but the *Ctrl* character
> C-M I don't know how to refer to them in a regexp.  How can I?  Also,
> what would be the most efficient way to do this in Python (e.g. use
> regexp functions to maybe module string will do?)
>
> Thanks,
>   -- John
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