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Old 03-19-2008
Issue with Removing Carriage Return (^M) in delimited file

Hi - I tried to remove ^M in a delimited file using "tr -d "\r" and "sed 's/^M//g'", but it does not work quite well. While the ^M is removed, the format of the record is still cut in half, like
a,b, c
c,d,e

The delimited file is generated using sh script by outputing a SQL query result to tab delimited file. The ^M embedded in the record is captured from user input, I believe.

Any insight is appreciated.
 

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