carriage return

[Joe Klemmer]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Gabriel M. Elder wrote:

>> I have a text file imported from filemaker pro. When I open it in vi i
>> see several ^]. Is this some sort of row delimiter?
>
> It's not a carriage return. It is a control character: ctrl-]. Its
> numeric value is as follows:
> oct     dec     hex     char
> ===     ===     ===     ====
> 35      29      1d       ^]
>
> I doubt it's anything that vi is artificially inserting. As for its
> specific use and function in the filemaker pro file format, that'd take
> some research to determine that.
>
> Is their presence/visibility in your editor problematic for whatever it
> is you're trying to do? If so, it wouldn't take much to whip up a short
> python script to strip those out...

 	Or, from in vim, do a global search and replace.

:g/^]/s///g

(That's the key combination Ctrl-] and not the shift 6 and ] keys)
(Warning: I haven't actually tried this so YMMV)

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