Well, Fastolfe, VT100 escape sequences need not have any parameter value at all, in which case the terminating letter immediately follows the left square bracket. (In this case, any numeric value is taken to be zero.) Thus you need a "*" instead of a "+".

And I'd be really surprised if lower case letters can't end a sequence.

And I'm pretty sure there are some sequences that end with punctuation marks.

And I'm fairly sure that multiple parameters are separated with semicolons, not commas.

Ah, forget it! I'm gonna fire up my old H19 terminal and leave all this DEC hair far behind....

    -- Chip Salzenberg, Free-Floating Agent of Chaos

In reply to Re: Re: how to strip VT100 escape sequences? by chip
in thread how to strip VT100 escape sequences? by guillaumerava

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