From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alejandro Santillan Iturres Sent: 02 October 2008 19:45 To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: regexp to "clean" a text file
> Thank you William, Bill and Tim. Finally s/[\x00-\x1f]//g did the trick, almost perfect. > The original file is the palm database of memo pads. The text is there, plain. Several mixed control characters > were present. > The system I working on is a Fedora linux box. I have no hex utility installed to make de dump, so I don't know > if the ^E is really a ^E. I find that a little hard to believe. Try 'hexdump', or if that isn't present you should at least have 'od'. If neither of them are installed, you Linux installation sounds a bit broken. Unless you can identify which characters are to be kept or discarded, you will find it difficult to 'clean' your data effectively. HTH -- Brian Raven ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message and any attachments without retaining a copy. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
