03-24-2008
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Did you try trimming the assumed carriage returns from the file? If something is fetching data from the Internet then the protocol is probably using carriage returns, and they might survive into your files (depending on the client which fetches them).
well that was it, the original source of the information was from a dos file. I ran dos2unix on it and ran the script and it worked fine.
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There's a book about awk & sed from O'Reilly, it's very old but also very much worth reading. Also most Unix intro books have a few chapters dedicated to regular expression tools in general, and grep and sed in particular, then moving on to awk. The manual page is not particularly gruesome, either, although of course it's primarily intended as a reference, not a tutorial.
I'll have look into it, thanks for the help!
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TRIM(3) 1 TRIM(3)
trim - Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning and end of a string
SYNOPSIS
string trim (string $str, [string $character_mask = " 0r B"])
DESCRIPTION
This function returns a string with whitespace stripped from the beginning and end of $str. Without the second parameter, trim(3) will
strip these characters:
o " " (ASCII
32 ( 0x20)), an ordinary space.
o " " (ASCII
9 ( 0x09)), a tab.
o "
" (ASCII
10 ( 0x0A)), a new line (line feed).
o "
" (ASCII
13 ( 0x0D)), a carriage return.
o "