Absolutely nothing, I was working on it while you posted this solution.
It looks great exept that as a newbie, I don't fully understand the syntax
Quote:
Originally Posted by radoulov
What is <<<? Is this a way of doing echo?
I understand the tr -d but what does 2>&- means?
redirect errors to &-? What is &-?
Thanks for your help.
Santiago
Hi,
How do I remove the lines where special characters or Unicode characters appear?
The following query does work but I wonder if there is a better way.
cat test.txt | egrep -v '\)|#|,|&|-|\(|\\|\/|\.'
The following lines show that my query is incomplete.
Warning: The word "*Khan" is... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a script written that creates a new directory within the shell program and if a parameter isn't passed in, it creates a strange directory name by mistake. So I have a directory like "-_12" and I am unable to remove it. I tried removing it using double quote and many others. I have... (12 Replies)
Hello,
Is there a simpler way to remove special characters (color codes) from each lines in a log file?
I use sed like in the example below but I think there should be a more simple way to achieve the same result:
$ cat -vet file1
^, , , ,
Maybe to convert the file somehow?
... (5 Replies)
Dear Members,
We have a file which contains some special characters. I need to replace these special character by a new line character(\n).
The Special character is \x85.
I am not sure what this character means and how we can remove it.
Any inputs are greatly appreciated.
Thanks... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a directory that has a file which contained special characters in the filename. Can someone please advise how to remove the file, preferably with a rm -i ?
Thanks in advance.
Listing is as below:
{oracle}> ls -1b
bplog.bkup.001
bplog.bkup.002
bplog.bkup.003
bplog.bkup.004... (1 Reply)
hello all
I am writing a perl code and i wish to remove the special characters for text.
I wish to remove all extended ascii characters. If the list of special characters is huge, how can i do this using substitute command
s/specialcharacters/null/g
I really want to code like... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a variable like
AVAIL="\
BACK:bkpstg:testdb3.iad.expertcity.com:backtest|\
#AUTH:authstg:testdb3.iad.expertcity.com:authiapd|\
TEST:authstg:testdb3.iad.expertcity.com:authiapd|\
"
What I want to do here is that If a find # before any entry, remove the entire string... (5 Replies)
Hi,
In source data few of columns are having special charates(like *) due to this i am not able to display the data into flat file.it's displaying the some of junk data into the flat file.
source dataExample:
Address1="XDERFTG * HYJUYTG"
how to remove the special charates in a string (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have string like this ="Lookup Procedure"
But i want the output like this Lookup Procedure
=," should be removed.
Please suggest me the solution.
Regards,
Madhuri (2 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I have file which contains some unicode charachator like "ü". I want to replace it with some charactors. I searched in internet and got command sed "s/ü/-/g", but I don't know how to type ü in unix command line.
Please help me for this one.
Thanks in advance (7 Replies)
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db2_escape_string
DB2_ESCAPE_STRING(3) 1 DB2_ESCAPE_STRING(3)db2_escape_string - Used to escape certain charactersSYNOPSIS
string db2_escape_string (string $string_literal)
DESCRIPTION
Prepends backslashes to special characters in the string argument.
PARAMETERS
o $string_literal
- The string that contains special characters that need to be modified. Characters that are prepended with a backslash are x00,
,
, , ', " and x1a.
RETURN VALUES
Returns $string_literal with the special characters noted above prepended with backslashes.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
A db2_escape_string(3) example
Result of using the db2_escape_string(3) function
<?php
$conn = db2_connect($database, $user, $password);
if ($conn) {
$str[0] = "All characters: x00 ,
,
, , ' , " , x1a .";
$str[1] = "Backslash (). Single quote ('). Double quote (")";
$str[2] = "The NULL character must be quoted as well";
$str[3] = "Intersting characters: x1a , x00 .";
$str[4] = "Nothing to quote";
$str[5] = 200676;
$str[6] = "";
foreach( $str as $string ) {
echo "db2_escape_string: " . db2_escape_string($string). "
";
}
}
?>
The above example will output:
db2_escape_string: All characters: ,
,
, \ , ' , " , .
db2_escape_string: Backslash (\). Single quote ('). Double quote (")
db2_escape_string: The NULL character must be quoted as well
db2_escape_string: Intersting characters: , .
db2_escape_string: Nothing to quote
db2_escape_string: 200676
db2_escape_string:
SEE ALSO db2_prepare(3).
PHP Documentation Group DB2_ESCAPE_STRING(3)