I guess you need to create a regular expression which parses out the Erroneous character before you use the file. either use awk or write a perl script to do this in one go. But not sure if this works if the file is being cut short by perl. use $line=~s/$erroneous_char//g; Where $erroneous_char contains the character which is causing this problem.
Or you could open the file as a binary fiile and use seek to navigate around it. Marty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Breslauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Martin Moss'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mark Breslauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Mark Breslauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mark Breslauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 3:45 PM Subject: RE: [Perl-unix-users] Erroneous EOF? > The file is 201K in size and 3,260 lines long - the part that confuses Perl > is at line 102. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Moss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 7:22 AM > To: Mark Breslauer; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Mark Breslauer > Subject: Re: [Perl-unix-users] Erroneous EOF? > > > How big is the log file? > Have you exceeded the maximum size limit for a file? > > Marty > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Breslauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Mark Breslauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 3:16 PM > Subject: [Perl-unix-users] Erroneous EOF? > > > > All - > > > > I'm writing a script to gather date from a large number of text log files > > and I've encountered an interesting problem. I've noticed that control > > characters that appear in some of the log files are being interpreted as > > indicating EOF - preventing the script from processing the rest of the > file. > > > > Specifically, Purl interprets the following line that appears a third of > the > > way as the last in the file: > > > > EAISiebAdpt EAISiebAdptTrcIntObj 4 2002-08-13 10:58:01 > > Integration component: ? > > > > It does not appear to be anything my script - a simple Perl -ne "print " > > EAIObjMgr_102350.log ends on the same line. But more EAIObjMgr_102350.log > > displays the rest of the file. > > > > Any idea what character might be causing this and how I might remove it? > > > > Thanks, > > > > mlb > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Perl-Unix-Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Unix-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
