06-30-2006
Hope this helps.
I had a big issue with this while trying to get a flat file into Oracle. I tried using vi and sed, and ultimately came upon a solution using strings and tr.
Here is my shell script:
#make a backup
cp $1 $1.orig
#Strip out nulls.
tr -d ‘\0′ < $1.orig > $1.temp
#Strip out other unprintable characters
strings $1.temp > $1
#Remove temp file.
rm $1.temp
#Fix permissions. (You may not need this for your application)
chmod 744 $1
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ustrtok
ustrtok(3alleg4) Allegro manual ustrtok(3alleg4)
NAME
ustrtok - Retrieves tokens from a string. Allegro game programming library.
SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h>
char *ustrtok(char *s, const char *set);
DESCRIPTION
This function retrieves tokens from `s' which are delimited by characters from `set'. To initiate the search, pass the string to be
searched as `s'. For the remaining tokens, pass NULL instead. Warning: Since ustrtok alters the string it is parsing, you should always
copy the string to a temporary buffer before parsing it. Also, this function is not re-entrant (ie. you cannot parse two strings at the
same time). Example:
char *word;
char string[]="some-words with dashes";
char *temp = ustrdup(string);
word = ustrtok(temp, " -");
while (word) {
allegro_message("Found `%s'
", word);
word = ustrtok(NULL, " -");
}
free(temp);
RETURN VALUE
Returns a pointer to the token, or NULL if no more are found.
SEE ALSO
uconvert(3alleg4), ustrchr(3alleg4), ustrrchr(3alleg4), ustrstr(3alleg4), ustrpbrk(3alleg4), ustrtok_r(3alleg4), allegro_message(3alleg4),
ustrncpy(3alleg4), exgui(3alleg4)
Allegro version 4.4.2 ustrtok(3alleg4)