Re^2: ascii problem

That only works if he really has two characters for backspace - "^" and "H". More likely he's got real backspaces, aka \x08 in Perl (among many ways to write that, of which ^H is not one).

-sam

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Re^3: ascii problem by bart (Canon) on Jun 01, 2006 at 20:22 UTC
among many ways to write that, of which ^H is not one But `"\cH"` is.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: ascii problem by Tobin Cataldo (Monk) on Jun 01, 2006 at 20:16 UTC
If it is in a string then it isn't a backspace character. It is the characters '^' and 'H'.	[reply]
Re^4: ascii problem by samtregar (Abbot) on Jun 01, 2006 at 20:19 UTC
I don't know what makes you so sure. His post is ambiguous, but I take it as significant that he claims to be working on a keylogger's output. That would almost certainly have real backspaces not "^" and "H". Of course it's impossible to be sure - he could have a screen-cap of a keylogger... -sam	[reply]
Re^4: ascii problem by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jun 01, 2006 at 20:25 UTC
Certainly the Unix utility `script` records the backspace as the single character with decimal value 8, this is what I would expect from any "keylogger" as that is the "value" of the key that was pressed. /J\	[reply] [d/l]