^M at the end of every line in vim

Question

When I am editing source files using vim and other editors sometimes at the end of the line I get these ^M characters at the end of each line. I think that it has something

Answer 1

This worked for me in a file that had everything on one line:

First find all matches

:%s/^M//

(To get ^M, press ^V ^M, where ^ is Ctrl on most keyboards)

Then replace with newlines

:%s//\r/g

Combined command would be:

:%s/^M/\r/g