Reading of text file in Ubuntu has extra //r

Question

I am porting a program created in C++ from MS Studio to Ubuntu . The program works fine except when it reads from a text file .

My text file consists of lines of information seperated by the delimiter :

General Manager:G001:def
Customer:C001:def:Lim:Tom:Mr:99999999:zor@hotmail.com:Blk 145 B North #03-03 Singapore 111111

Read method

while (getline(afile,line,'\n')) //read line and store string in variable line
        {


            stringstream ss(line);
            string s;
            while (getline(ss,s,':'))
            {
                word.push_back(s);
            }


            word.clear();

        }

On Windows platform , it is stored correctly as def

However on Ubuntu platform , it is stored as def\\r

It works fine for Customer Record but gives problem for General Manager

I know it has something to do with Carriage return but I am not sure how to resolve it

Look at this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6089231/getting-std-ifstream-to-handle-lf-cr-and-crlf — user1781290, Feb 12 '14 at 04:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 12 '14 at 04:28

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If the text file was created on Windows, you can use the dos2unix command to remove the extra \r's from the file. The command is simply dos2unix filenamegoeshere

answered Feb 12 '14 at 04:28

user253751

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Why is it \\r and not \r – Computernerd Feb 12 '14 at 04:37
The input file will have \r, but I don't know why it gets converted to \\r. – user253751 Feb 12 '14 at 04:54
Assuming the txt file name :User.txt , I am typing "dos2unix User.txt" , it doesnt work – Computernerd Feb 12 '14 at 05:31
In a command prompt, right, not in the program? Also you need to `cd /path/to/file/goes/here` first, sorry I forgot to say that. – user253751 Feb 12 '14 at 05:45

Reading of text file in Ubuntu has extra //r

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