07-21-2010
remove special characters
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
s/chr(128)..chr(256)//g... but this will not work. chr function is not working in the substitute command.
How can i do this on a single command line
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tr(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands tr(1B)
NAME
tr - translate characters
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/tr [-cds] [ string1 [string2]]
DESCRIPTION
The tr utility copies the standard input to the standard output with substitution or deletion of selected characters. The arguments string1
and string2 are considered sets of characters. Any input character found in string1 is mapped into the character in the corresponding posi-
tion within string2. When string2 is short, it is padded to the length of string1 by duplicating its last character.
In either string the notation:
a-b
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character whose ASCII code is given by those digits. As with the shell, the escape character , followed by any other character, escapes
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OPTIONS
Any combination of the options -c, -d, or -s may be used:
-c Complement the set of characters in string1 with respect to the universe of characters whose ASCII codes are 01 through 0377
octal.
-d Delete all input characters in string1.
-s Squeeze all strings of repeated output characters that are in string2 to single characters.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Creating a list of all the words in a filename
The following example creates a list of all the words in filename1, one per line, in filename2, where a word is taken to be a maximal
string of alphabetics. The second string is quoted to protect `' from the shell. 012 is the ASCII code for NEWLINE.
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