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Change DOS to Unix text file format in VIM

The last few times I had to use a .txt file as an input, I've run into difficult-to-troubleshoot parsing errors. What could be wrong? I check and re-check the text file, and I can't find any mistakes!

If the text file came from a Windows machine, this may due to a difference in line-ending between DOS and Unix text files. You can check and change this file format in Vim.

Open your file in Vim and, in normal mode, type :set ff? to see what the file format is. If it is DOS, then type :set ff=unix to change it to Unix.

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