Hi, I am trying to parse a file and extract some names. The data has come with some odd characters in, and these characters are sandwiched in the middle of the string I am trying to extract.
If i open the file in text editor it looks like this: JON DAVIES/JIM REED That leading space is translated by my mail client but in hex mode on my editor its '0a'. I have managed to remove the characters if they are at the beginning with a s/^\W// but I am struggling to find them when they are in the whitespace between names. vim show them as ^A and my winVI show them (in ANSI mode) as \A0: MIKE \A0 \A0 \A0HOLLINGSHEAD/JIM REED I am pretty sure this is a job for tr but I can't determine the correct values to use. Any ideas anyone? TIA. Dp. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
