perlquestion
NateTut
Monks;
I have a scalar containing text with a mixture of line ending characters (it's Lotus Notes e-mail message text). I want to replace all of the LFs to be CRLFs. <BR>
I have tried many different regexp approaches. Below is the relevant snippet:
<code>
open (TEXTFILE, ">$subdir/message.txt")
or die "Can't create $subdir message file: $!";
print TEXTFILE "From: ", $doc->{From}->[0];
print TEXTFILE "Subject: ", $doc->{Subject}->[0];
$doc->{Body} =~ s/\015/\n/gm;
print TEXTFILE $doc->{Body};
close TEXTFILE;
</code>
$doc->{Body} contains the text with the mixture of LFs & CRLFs. This is a WinDoze app so I'm sure print is putting CRLFs on the line ends.
<BR>
In the s/ I've tried everything I can think of: \x0D instead of \015 s instead of m at the end, etc. I still end up with extranneous LFs left. I think it's a problem of my understanding of the concept of a line in a regexp or something.
<BR>
<BR>
Doug
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***Update***
here's how I finally got it to work.
<code>
open (TEXTFILE, ">$subdir/message.txt")
or die "Can't create $subdir message file: $!";
print TEXTFILE "From: ", $doc->{From}->[0];
print TEXTFILE "Subject: ", $doc->{Subject}->[0];
my $NewBody = $doc->{Body};
$NewBody =~ s/\x0D\n/\n/g;
print TEXTFILE $NewBody;
close TEXTFILE;
</code>
The problem was that I was trying to modify a Lotus Notes Object. Kudos to diotalevi for that tip.
<br><br>
Doug
Doug