#!/usr/bin/env perl # find_extended_chars.txt # this script finds any non-alphanumeric characters, codes, etc in a # given input file and prints the line & line number so that it can be # changed. use strict; use Cwd; foreach my $file (@ARGV) { my $error = 0; my $line = 1; open FILE, $file; while (){ if ($_ =~ m/[^[:ascii:]]/ ){ if (!$error){ print $file."\n"; $error = 1; } print $line. "\t".$_; } $line++; } }