Very Computer

I often read/modify source code which has been written
using Windows editors. I use Vi as my editor. Windows
editors leave carriage return character instead
of new line characters, which Vi shows as ^M

I would like to replace them with new line character
using Vi command mode. I have tried all possible
substitution/regular expressions but haven't been able
to achieve that task. How can it be done?

Thanks
Shailender

you can delete the ^M with a simple command line

        tr -d\015 < file.in > file.out

\015 is ascii 13 (15 octal)

Greetings
Christian

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