Re^2: Strange character beginning text files

To limit data to the ASCII printable set you can just do tr/\011\012\015\040-\176//cd You may want to lose or change one of the CR LF chars as well.

Opps, forgot tab, thanks beable

cheers

tachyon

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Re^3: Strange character beginning text files by beable (Friar) on Jul 20, 2004 at 07:55 UTC
Tut tut, sirrah. \011 is printable. From "man ascii": `Oct Dec Hex Char 011 9 09 HT '\t'` [download] </nitpick>	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Strange character beginning text files by tachyon (Chancellor) on Jul 21, 2004 at 00:58 UTC
Ooops, forgot that! That's what happens if you code off the top of your head with no unit tests :-) cheers tachyon	[reply]