Re: noobie control char removal

I think you could use a reg ex.
Do you know what the codes are? If its only a few expected ones you can just substitute them out.
or possibly something like this (untested)

s/[:cntrl:]//g;
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check perlre for more info

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Re^2: noobie control char removal by desertman (Acolyte) on Nov 18, 2009 at 23:41 UTC
I tried that, it took out all the c,n, t, r characters.	[reply]
Re^3: noobie control char removal by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 18, 2009 at 23:52 UTC
He meant `s/[[:cntrl:]]//g;` [download] POSIX classes must be used inside a regex character class.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: noobie control char removal by colwellj (Monk) on Nov 18, 2009 at 23:52 UTC
Can you edit your post to add the data you are having trouble with? Also you can try the unicode version; `s/\p{IsCntrl}//g;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]