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Operating Systems AIX How can i replace a character with blank space? Post 302185790 by rollthecoin on Wednesday 16th of April 2008 01:18:08 AM
Old 04-16-2008
No.

I will tell you clearly.

i want to delete a invalid character(which i told you as example '2'.)

The query should check for characters which is not present in the following
A to Z,
a to z ,
0 to 9
and all the symbols present in the keyboard.

If you have any doubts reply me.
Last edited by rollthecoin; 04-16-2008 at 06:34 AM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

gnome-character-map

gnome-character-map(1)						   User Commands					    gnome-character-map(1)

NAME

       gnome-character-map, gucharmap - insert special characters into a document

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-character-map [--font=string]

DESCRIPTION

       The  Character Map application enables you to select characters from a character table, then combine the characters into a text string with
       standard characters. You can insert the text string that you create into other applications, such as text editor documents.

       Character Map provides accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks. Many of the  characters  are  not
       available on a standard keyboard.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --font=string   Specify	the font name and point size that you want to use to display the characters in the character table, when you start
		       Character Map.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching Character Map

       example% gnome-character-map

       Example 2: Launching Character Map With Specified Font Name and Point Size

       example% gnome-character-map --font="bitstream vera sans italic 20"

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-character-map    Executable for Character Map.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-character-map	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Character Map Manual

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

NOTES

       Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10							    20 Jan 2004 					    gnome-character-map(1)
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