Re: Regex question: How do I remove an escape code from text?

\x05 should work:

$ echo 'text^E^E^E^E' |perl -ne 's/\x05//g;print;'|od -c
0000000   t   e   x   t  \n
0000005
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Re: Re: Regex question: How do I remove an escape code from text? by Declarent (Sexton) on Mar 20, 2003 at 17:25 UTC
Unfortunately this doesn't work. While I know that escape codes don't care about case, this shows up as ^e, rather than ^E and it resists all versions of 05 that I can throw at it. I'm thinking now that maybe it's something else and not that escape code. Is there a way to match it outside of hex? Also, it doesn't show up as regular text and does not match to \^e.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Regex question: How do I remove an escape code from text? by dga (Hermit) on Mar 20, 2003 at 17:33 UTC
You should run a sample of the input through od and see whats really there. I would recommend the -c and or -a switches to get 005 or enq respectively if its a control-e	[reply]