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in reply to Text strangeness after using SMB to get a file

Since you mention SMB, I am assuming the files come from a Windows machine of some sort. Chances are that the files have DOS line endings, but your script is running on Solaris, which is assuming *nix line endings. Try running the file through a dos2unix utility to change the line endings first.
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Re^2: Text strangeness after using SMB to get a file
by ghenry (Vicar) on Sep 10, 2005 at 14:27 UTC

    Or you could just use:

    perl -i.bak -pe 's/\r\n/\n/' *

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      So instead of:

      chomp($csvLine);

      I could do:

      $csvLine =~ s/\r\n//;

      ?

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        If you know it's always in DOS format.

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