Shaunn Johnson wrote:
> 
> --at this point, i'm still trying to figure out
> --how to find NEL.  the ASCII chart says the following:
> 
> 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

Anything after 127 is not ASCII, ASCII defines the character set for
0-127.


> --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:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl -pi
> 
> chop;
> print;
> 
> --but i think i'm doing that wrong (actually, i *know* i am) ....
> --so, that's where i am now.
> --any suggestions?

perl -i~ -pe's/[^[:ascii:]]//' yourfile



John
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