07-14-2009
replace nulls with whitespaces in a file
Hi,
i have a file which contains data in fixed length. each row contains data of 10 characters fixed length. The data in the file appears like 4567782882
some times i may recieve dat less than fixed length of 10. in such a case i find nulls appended at the trailing spaces when i do a hexdump. i should replace this nulls with whitespaces. how could this be done?
the possiblities where i may recieve nulls in the data is:
123 678910
12345
1
etc..
in all th above cases the nulls should be replaced by white spaces
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NAME
fixed - Fixed point integer to replace floats. Allegro game programming library.
SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h>
typedef long fixed
DESCRIPTION
This is a fixed point integer which can replace float with similar results and is faster than float on low end machines. Read chapter
"Fixed point math routines" for the full explanation.
SEE ALSO
, ex12bit(3alleg4), ex3buf(3alleg4), ex3d(3alleg4), excustom(3alleg4), exfixed(3alleg4), exrotscl(3alleg4), exspline(3alleg4),
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