Hi monks,

sorry but I'm a beginner and I've a problem maybe someone of you could easyly solve.

I capture the standard output of a command in one array (@res) and of course I have annoying escape sequences.

For example :
"Stopping saslauthd: \1b[60G[\1b[0;31mFAILED\1b[0;39m]\r"

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I have this printale string using:
use String::Escape qw( printable unprintable );
$okstring = printable($line);

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but really I was unable to strip all the escape sequences from the output.

I try, hardly, but all the code I write doesn't works.

Any ideas?

many Thanks

Monk-Beginer Phil

In reply to Strip escape sequences by monk-beginner

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