--thanks for the reply: --at this point, i'm still trying to figure out --how to find NEL. the ASCII chart says the following:
[snip] DEC HEX OCT EDT TPU CHAR DESCRIPTION 10 00A 012 <LF> L/F CTRL-J LF line feed 13 00D 015 <CR> C/R CTRL-M CR carriage return ... ... ... DEC Multinational Character Set Extension of the ASCII character set DEC HEX OCT EDT TPU CHAR DESCRIPTION 133 085 205 <NEL> ? NEL next line [/snip] --i thought it was newline, too, but this seems to just say 'next line'. --i had imagined that control-m, control-j is what created this, but, --now i'm not so sure. --as i've said, i can do a sed to remove CF and LF, but i'm thinking --that NEL is just the end of the line and i can't remove it ... or maybe --i can't replace it ... *shrug* ... --i don't know how to isolate characters like this in perl, so, i --don't have much of a script to show you. i was looking --at http://groups.google.com and it appears someone just said: [snip] #!/usr/bin/perl -pi chop; print; [/snip] --but i think i'm doing that wrong (actually, i *know* i am) .... --so, that's where i am now. --any suggestions? --thanks! -X -----Original Message----- From: Rob Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I think we may need to see your Perl code Shaunn. I've never heard of a NEL character but that may be my ignorance; do you mean newline? How do you know the control characters aren't being removed by what you've done? chomp() will remove the last character from a string if it is the input record separator character $/, normally '\n'. chop() will remove the last character whatever it is, and so will do the job as long as you're sure the string ends with a charatcer that you don't want. Let us know, Rob "Shaunn Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Howdy: > > I have a text file that I'm trying to use, but, it has control characters > at the end. > > [snip] > > test.txt: ASCII text, with very long lines, with NEL line terminators > > [/snip] > > I've tried to use 'sed' and 'tr' to remove NEL and just have > an ASCII text. I've even used dos2unix, but that doesn't > seem to help. > > I thought I could do it with chomp / chop, but I don't think I'm > doing it properly. > > How can I remove things like CL/LF, NEL, etc from a > text file? > > Thanks! > > -X > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
