in reply to ascii problem

If on unix, cat filename | col -b should do the trick.

Unless, of course, it's actually the two characters ^ and H.

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Re^2: ascii problem
by crashtest (Curate) on Jun 01, 2006 at 20:46 UTC

    Unless, of course, it's actually the two characters ^ and H.
    ... in which case -- staying with an all-UNIX solution -- you could convert the two characters ^ and H to the control-character ^H first 1: 
    cat filename | sed 's!\^H!\x08!g' | col -b

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    1 inserting non-ascii like \x08 might not work for all versions of sed

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