Perl Carrage Returns

[John Seth]

Something like the chop or trim functions should work. ^M is basically
equivalent to "\r\n" in Perl, I believe.  Try chop or trim commands in
perl, and look up the options for each to see how you could use those
commands to strip it out.

   - Tony

> For all those Perl Gurus out there, I have a perl script I wrote It
> takes input from a form and loads it into an oracle database. I'm
> looking to strip the ^M s out of the large comment field that a
> windows browser puts in. I can't seem to get the character to match.
> Any ideas.
> Something like
>
> $text =~ s/^M//g;
>
> But I can't seems to generate a ^M that works ideas?
>
> Justin
>
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