Maybe I'm missing something...but why not do this with PHP (seeing as how this is a PHP list)? ereg_replace('(\r|\n)', ' ', $string) Just a thought On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:01:46 -0400, Michael Cortes <cortesm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I found part of the answer...... > > when doing a search in vim you can hit ctrl-m as long as you hit ctrl-v first. > ctrl-v tells vim to treat the following as a character, not to do the action > i.e... carriage return. > > Now I need just one more piece, if anyone has the answer: > > ctrl-m is a carriage return. Does anyone know what ctrl seqence is line feed? > > Thanks > > > > On Thursday 19 August 2004 09:49 am, Michael Cortes wrote: > > That didn't work. Here's why. This is not a dos file. It is a unix file > > but when dumping the data from my db, some fields had a trailing CR and LF. > > So what I ended up with was a ^M showing in the middle of a line when I > > open the file in vim. And... the lines will also end where they shouldn't. > > What is supposed to be one line, then continues on the next. > > > > While dos2unix did strip out the ^m, it left the LF (is it return or > > linefeed in unix) at the end of the line, starting a new one. > > > > I need to actually do a search on ^M followed by LF and replace it with > > nothing so I get my full line back. But I don't know how to enter in LF or > > CR in a vim search string. > > > > Hope this clarifies..... > > > > -- > > Michael Cortes > Fort LeBoeuf School District > 34 East Ninth Street > PO Box 810 > Waterford PA 16441-0810 > 814.796.4795 > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- randy sesser@xxxxxxxxx -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php