Removing ^M

[Chris Gonnerman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Hall" <olc at ninti.com>


> I am trying remove ^M characters (some kind of newline character) from an
> HTML file. I've tried all sorts of string.replace and sed possibilities
> but the
> things just won't go away. Does anyone have a way of removing such
> characters?

Unixoid OS, right? 

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import sys

data = sys.stdin.read()

for ch in data:
    if ch != "\r":
        sys.stdout.write(ch)

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Run it like this:

    python cleaner.py <source.html >destination.html

Yeah, it could have a bunch more nice stuff...  This is the Q&D 
version.

If the file is really large this won't be real efficient, but for 
small files it's probably the best way.


Chris Gonnerman -- chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net
http://newcenturycomputers.net