[Info-vax] *.xml files - carriage return's go into file in VMS - how to remove CR's?

[Chuck Aaron]

The text file is created on VMS from an Adabas Natural program. It
does contain the embedded CR/LF. This new file is compared against
an MS word file that does not contain CR/LF and the difference between
the files are analyzed and actions taken accordingly. Since we really
only need to look at the text difference, the CR/LF in the one file
is causing the difference to include these when we would not want them
to be included in the results.




sapienzaf wrote:
> Chuck,
> 
> That's a simple text file.  So the question is whether there really is
> an embedded CR/LF in the records or if the program you are using to
> read the file is inserting them into the read buffer as a by-product
> of how you are opening the file.
> 
> Step 1 would be to check if the records actually contain a CR/LF.
> Simply do the following:
> 
> $ DUMP /RECORD=END=1 USER$DISK:[PXZA003]ABW_FROM_MSWORD.XML
> 
> Check the dump that is produced and look for the hex representation of
> CR/LF (x0A0C).  If you see the hex values at the end of the record
> then it contains CR/LF.  If you don't see the hex values then the
> program is opening the file incorrectly.
> 
> The other piece of the puzzle is how the file gets transferred (and
> mangled) from the Windows system to the OpenVMS system.  But that's a
> different discussion.