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I am currently extracting plain text from an InDesign file containing heaps of escape sequence characters. Yes, I am reading the file line by line (as if it were a text file) and am not reading it in in bin mode. This is because - apart frome the escape characters - the input file is quite human-readable.
I would like to write regular expessions for some of those escape sequences to capture specific patterns. My problem is that I don't know how to reference those escape characters in the regexes I am using.
I already figured out that the character displaying as 'NUL' in my text editor of the InDesign file is \000. I also found that \x should reference escape characters. However, I have not been able to find a systematic representation for 'EOT', 'DLE' and what have you. Is there something like \xABC I can use to specify the general escape character showing up as ABC in my text editor?

Your help will be much appreciated!

Kind regards -

Pat

In reply to How to include escape sequence characters in regular expressions? by pat_mc

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