I want to directly go to end of the file (without reading whole big file)
and remove the ctrl-Z character and write back to file.
No need of one-liners(since it works but takes long time for big file)
Update me please
Last edited by Franklin52; 10-01-2011 at 06:00 AM..
Reason: Corrected code tags
Hi All,
I am looking for a solution to capture any ASCII control character in a file
( where the ASCII control character is in decimal value from 0 to 31 and 127
( Hex value from 00 to 1F and 7F ) ) by returning any affected lines.
The intended good file should contain "ASCII printable... (5 Replies)
I use SAS (a statistical software) and have to remove last character or the last 1/2 numbers that appear after characters from the string using Perl Regular Expression (which is recognized by SAS).
Input: f183ii10 f183ii2 f182ii1 f182ii2 f183iim f22ii f22ii11 f22ii12 pmh4 pmhm
Desired... (2 Replies)
Hello, i'm unable to remove the parenthesis character.
With $parsed_AsciiName =~ s/\(//;
the string is the same
And with $parsed_AsciiName =~ s/(//;
i retrieve "Unmatched ( in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/( <-- HERE"
Any ideas, please? thank you in advanced. (4 Replies)
Hi All,
How to remove a box like special character which appears at the end of a string/line/record. I have no clue what this box like special character is. It is transparent square like box. This appears in a .DAT file at the end of header.
I'm to compare a value in header with a parameter.... (16 Replies)
Hi All,
I have named a file with current date,time and year as follows:
month=`date | awk '{print $2}'`
date=`date | awk '{print $3}'`
year=`date | awk '{print $6}'`
time=`date +%Hh_%Mm_%Ss'`
filename="test_"$month"_"$date"_"$year"_"$time".txt"
> $filename
The file is created with a... (2 Replies)
i want to split the input by a space and remove specific characters like full stop, comma...... etc. and then save each word in an array.
i got something below, but it didn't work. can anyone please help me?
Thank you
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
while (<>)
{
$line = <>;
@word = split(' ',... (6 Replies)
in a file we are getting control character in a file , is there any way that they can be removed once we have the file
for eg.
BEGIN-PROCEDURE INITIALIZE
^M
LET #row_count = 0^M
^M
^M (2 Replies)
I need to remove new line character from end of file.
Suppose here are content.
a|b|c|d|r
a|b|c|d|r
a|b|c|d|r
<new line>
that means file contains 4 lines but data is there in 3 lines.
so I want that only 3 lines should be there in file.
Please help (20 Replies)
Hi,
I hope someone can share there scripting fu on my problem,
I would like to delete the 3rd character from a random length of string starting from the end
Example
Output
Hope you can help me..
Thanks in advance.. (3 Replies)
how to Remove comma as last charector in end of last line of file:
example:
input file
---------------
aaaaaa,
bbbbbb,
cccc,
12345,
____________
output file :
-----------
aaaaaa,
bbbbbb, (6 Replies)