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Dan Klose

Jun 22 2005, 08:07 AM

Hi everybody,

I have exported an EndNote 7 Library on my Mac to a Bibtex formatted
plain text file. When I look at the file, rather than having lines
ending with 'n' I seem to have '^M'. I think this is a Mac end of line
problem but the things I have tried don't work and I was wondering if
anyone had any ideas/bits of code to get round this.

Thanks

Dan.

Xavier Noria

Jun 22 2005, 08:49 AM

On Jun 22, 2005, at 11:07, Dan Klose wrote:

QUOTE

Hi everybody,

I have exported an EndNote 7 Library on my Mac to a Bibtex formatted
plain text file. When I look at the file, rather than having lines
ending with 'n' I seem to have '^M'. I think this is a Mac end of
line
problem but the things I have tried don't work and I was wondering if
anyone had any ideas/bits of code to get round this.

If there are no ns then you could do just this:

perl -pi -we 's/15/n/g' filename

Note that since $/ is n the file will be slurped by -p.

-- fxn

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