Hi,
I have a text file which I am opening in vi/vim/gvim. I want to
replace a particular character with a newline character. How can I do it?
For ex, I have the file containing line:

I am a good boy.^MI am regular at work.

Now I want to replace this '^M' with a new line. In other words, what
should I relplace '??' with in the following search and replace command:

:%s/CtrlV+M/??/g

Regards
Marmagya

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Marmagya <marmagya@eNOpatra_SPAM.com> writes:

>        I have a text file which I am opening in vi/vim/gvim. I want to
> replace a particular character with a newline character. How can I do
> it?

Depends from what a newline character is on your platform.  On mine is
a ^J, on your I dunno.

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Marmagya wrote:

> I have a text file which I am opening in vi/vim/gvim. I want to
> replace a particular character with a newline character. How can I do
> it?  For ex, I have the file containing line:
>
> I am a good boy.^MI am regular at work.

Would this by any chance be a DOS or MAC text file?  In that case just
use the conversion tools dos2unix or mac2unix.

> Now I want to replace this '^M' with a new line. In other words, what
> should I relplace '??' with in the following search and replace
> command:
>
> :%s/CtrlV+M/??/g

That would probably be '\r'.

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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:34:20 +0530,
Marmagya <marmagya@eNOpatra_SPAM.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>        I have a text file which I am opening in vi/vim/gvim. I want to
> replace a particular character with a newline character. How can I do it?
> For ex, I have the file containing line:
>
> I am a good boy.^MI am regular at work.
>
> Now I want to replace this '^M' with a new line. In other words, what
> should I relplace '??' with in the following search and replace command:
>
>:%s/CtrlV+M/??/g
>
> Regards
> Marmagya
>
:%s/CtrlV^M/\r/g


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Marmagya wrote:
> Hi,
>       I have a text file which I am opening in vi/vim/gvim. I want to
> replace a particular character with a newline character. How can I do it?
> For ex, I have the file containing line:
>
> I am a good boy.^MI am regular at work.
>
> Now I want to replace this '^M' with a new line. In other words, what
> should I relplace '??' with in the following search and replace command:
>
> :%s/CtrlV+M/??/g

How about :

sed 's/\r/\n/g' somefile > newfile

Or,

perl -pi -e 's/\r/\n/g' somefile

I usually like to use a comma instead of a forward-slash as my
delimeter, though it doesn't matter, as long as the same delimiter is
used througout.


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Marmagya sighed and said:

> Hi,
>        I have a text file which I am opening in vi/vim/gvim. I want to
> replace a particular character with a newline character. How can I do it?
> For ex, I have the file containing line:
>
> I am a good boy.^MI am regular at work.
>
> Now I want to replace this '^M' with a new line. In other words, what
> should I relplace '??' with in the following search and replace command:
>
> :%s/CtrlV+M/??/g
>
> Regards
> Marmagya

There is the utility fromdos which according to its man page

takes a DOS text file as stdin and sends a UNIX text file
to stdout.  DOS text file format separates lines of  text  by  two
characters:  CR  followed by LF (hex 0d 0a). UNIX text file format
separates lines of text with a single LF character (hex 0a).  This
program  changes  the CR LF groups found in the input stream to LF
in the output stream.

I know this is outside of vim, but it might just work...

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It beat me every time.
That's why I use Linux.

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Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net> wrote in message news:<403b251e$1_2@corp.newsgroups.co
m>...
> Marmagya wrote: 
>
> How about :
>
> sed 's/\r/\n/g' somefile > newfile
>
> Or,
>
> PERL -pi -e 's/\r/\n/g' somefile
>
> I usually like to use a comma instead of a forward-slash as my
> delimeter, though it doesn't matter, as long as the same delimiter is
> used througout.

...or you can forget about the past and fast forwared to the future
... dump all that retarded goofy old-fashined beta linux software and
upgrade to one of the many top quality text editor available under
windows xp professional ... forget about vi, vim, gvim and all that
crap, that's only for morons!

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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, cola_moderator wrote:

> ...or you can forget about the past and fast forwared to the future
> ... dump all that retarded goofy old-fashined beta linux software and
> upgrade to one of the many top quality text editor available under
> Windows XP professional ... forget about vi, vim, gvim and all that
> crap, that's only for morons!

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Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:

[...]

>                                   ___________________
>                           /|  /|  |                  |
>                           ||__||  |      Please do   |
>                          /   O O\__         NOT      |
>                         /          \     feed the    |
>                        /      \     \     trolls     |
>                       /   _    \     \ ______________|
>                      /    |\____\     \     ||
>                     /     | | | |\____/     ||
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>          *      ___ c_c_c_C/ \C_c_c_c____________

Good one. Mind if I steal it for future use?

I know a couple trolls who will complain about it as a waste of
bandwidth. Funny how trolls always accuse others of what they do.

Joe
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 joe@invalid.address wrote:

> Good one. Mind if I steal it for future use?

Not at all - go right ahead!

> I know a couple trolls who will complain about it as a waste of
> bandwidth. Funny how trolls always accuse others of what they do.

Indeed...

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