I have a routine that parses data from a screen scrape. The way I had it working was  the user pasted the copied data to an element named convertbox and pressed the parse command button.

It worked great but was a bit of a kludge.

I tried cleaning it up by eliminating the paste into an element using @GetSelectionContents().

My problem is that windows cut and paste does not have the ^M carriage return  / end of line and @GetSelectionContents()  does.

When I try to change my parse routine and remove the ^M   - I can't. I have tried removing or substituting and then removing  but I cannot seem to manipulate the ^M. I thought  ^M is  @chr(13) and used
str1 = @replace(@GetSelectionContents(), "@chr(13)", "")
And also
writting to the element than manipulating it str1 = @replace(convertbox, "@chr(13)", "")
And also
Replacing it with another letter   str1 = @replace(@GetSelectionContents(), "@chr(13)", X"")
even replacing a ^ and M
And many many others.

I imagine there is a simple method, however it seems to allude me.

Can someone point out the errors of my way? 
Thanks

Below is the Quote I got it from one of the boards for answer of, How to remove ^M character from text.

Quote:

The ^M does represent the CR (Carriage Return). The problem is with your replacement statement. You have the @Chr(13) inside quotes, so it is trying to find that literal string, rather than ASCII character 13.

Change this:
str1 = @replace(@GetSelectionContents(), "@chr(13)", "")

To this:
str1 = @replace(@GetSelectionContents(), @chr(13), "")

And it should work for you.


Also, you can use this bit of code to visualize the CRs and LFs:

var vStr as String

vStr = @GetSelectionContents()

vStr = @Replace(vStr, @Chr(13), "(CR)")
vStr = @Replace(vStr, @Chr(10), "(LF)")

WriteLn(vStr)