[H-GEN] ASCII Characters

[Tony Melia]

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What about 'strings', the command??  Ie. Cat binary.bin | strings, which
should extract all printable text.

Regards,
Tony 

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From: Majordomo [mailto:majordom at caliburn.humbug.org.au] On Behalf Of Greg
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Sent: Friday, 24 October 2003 9:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [H-GEN] ASCII Characters

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On 2003-10-24, Joe Skilton wrote [re-formatted for legibility]:

>     I have some ASCII characters I need to strip from some output, the 
> only problem being I don't know the characters (sounds strange I know, 
> but it will become clear).

Try "man ascii" if you want to know their names, although this is of no use
in your task.

> The output itself has nothing except blank space where these 
> characters are, but if I cut and paste it into gedit they come up in a 
> little box, which contain the numbers 0002 and 0003, I know it's 
> ASCII, as it's IRC output (and a guy on a scripting channel explained 
> that it is ASCII, but he wasn't sure what) but i'm not sure what these 
> characters are, and therefore i'm not sure how to use my perl program 
> to strip them ?

Try "man tr" for the obvious tool to use; obviously it's trivial to do with
any of the standard Unix tools such as awk, although the more modern kitchen
sink languages will also be able to assist.

Why not have a go at solving it and then come back with a report of what you
tried and what you got if you still need help?

> Pre-emptive apology to anyone this annoys (I always seem to piss 
> someone off),

You'd certainly piss me off much less if you found out where the Enter key
is so that you could limit your lines to less than 75 characters.

Cheers, Greg

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