Control M ????

[kabir.patel@uk.andersen.com]

Some time back I mentioned a problem I had with the ^M character (see below).
It so happens that I need to be able to replace every ^M in my resultant file
with a " " charachter.
GNU isn't happy with ^M. Is there a way to define ^M in another way?

Thanks in advance





Kabir Patel wrote:

> Line 9469  while((pChar=strchr(Uwel_notes1.str,'^M'))!=NULL)
> Line 9470             *(pChar) = *" ";

Embedding a character 13 into the source is horrible and, as it happens,
is causing this problem. (I also don't like the next line: there's no
point dereferencing a constant string just for a space! This isn't a
really bug, though - just style.)

Try:

    while((pChar=strchr(Uwel_notes1.str,'\r'))!=NULL)
               *(pChar) = ' ';

The problem was that the compiler was interpreting the ^M as a line
break and not a character constant. It was trying to compile:

    while((pChar=strchr(Uwel_notes1.str,'
    '))!=NULL)

and single-quoted constants may not cross line boundaries.

Rup.








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