Re: Windows ALT characters

On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:51:01 AM UTC-6, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 30/01/13 02:53, John McGlynn wrote:
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> > Hi Vim,
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> > I have a load of csv files in which some rows have an arrow at the end.
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> > The arrow seems to have been made using Windows ALT 26.
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> >
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> > It shows up in Vim as ^Z^M.
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> > Can anyone tell me how to remove these pesky objects?
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> > Thanks,
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> >
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> > John
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> You already got several replies about how to remove them.
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> Those Ctrl-Z characters are a leftover from DOS "ASCII" mode, where they
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> signaled end-of-file. When reading a file, DOS used to disregard the
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> Ctrl-Z and everything after it. This peculiarity was used when typing in
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> a file at the console (to be read via a < redirection): the user typed
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> Ctrl-Z to signal the end of data and come back to the command prompt.
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> The Ctrl-M is a carriage return, which may have been added by some
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> program unaware of the special meaning of the Ctrl-Z.
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>

In the past, I discovered the hard way that Perl (at least, ActivePerl on Windows) also treats the CTRL-Z as "end of file" and stops processing. Certainly removing them is a good idea.

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