And exactly how should two spaces between the slashes help with the carriage retunrns? If you said 1,$s/\n// or 1,$s/\r// I would have nodded my head in agreement, but two slashes??? Why not two slashdots? On 05/21/2004 08:38:00 PM, Ryan wrote: > yeah or opening it in vi and doing the following: > > 'escape' (takes cursor to the bottom of the screen) > > 1,s/ //g > > That is two spaces between the the slashes. That should get rid of your > carriage returns.-- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------