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08-03-2012
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Problem with Special characters in file
Hi, I am facing a below problem. Inorder to mak sure the below file is fixed width i am using the following command Code:
awk '{printf("%-375s\n", $0) }so as to add trailing spaces at the end for records of length less than 375. Input file > inp.txt Code:
1©1234 1234 123©1 The output file is fixed with of expected length but the data after the © is getting lost is getting padded spaces. Output: 1<space till 375> 1234<space till 375> 123<spacetill 375> Can you please let me know as to how to avoid this and of there is a better way to make the records in a file fixed width?
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08-03-2012
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What encoding is this? Your copyright character may end up being several bytes, even though it's a single character, which awk's formatting won't take into account.
In fact, if this file really is supposed to be fixed width, the presence of a character like that may be a problem altogether. |
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