Thanks for all answers.
Special thanks to disedorgue that he helped me a lot and I solved my problem by converting octal matches of special characters.
i had a shell script writing a xml file. I need to use "& # 163;" instead of "£", and replace others characters like: > to > , and so on.. Anyone know how to convert the character automatically? my script as below:
do
# GET FEED REC
SQL2="SELECT A.*, B.subject FROM feed_details A,... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am reading a file (GC_JAR.log) which has entries like:
511725.629, 0.1122672 secs]
525268.975, 0.1240036 secs]
527181.835, 0.2068215 secs]
527914.287, 0.2884801 secs]
528457.134, 0.2548725 secs]
I want to replace all the entries of "secs]" with just "secs"
Thus, the output... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I am using LATEX and need to delete all the lines in a file matching:
\begin{work}
I know there are several ways to do this, but I am trying to do it with the substitute command in VI. The problem is I can't get substitute to recognize the character '\'!
How do I do it?
... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file, which contains ^C or ^A characters from mainfrme system, it's dec 192 or octal 300 hex C0. I want to replace this character with new line.
I used commands, but it didn't worked.
tr '\o300' '\n' <t >t2
#or
tr '\xC0' '\n' <t > t2
Can somebody help me to do... (2 Replies)
When I open a file in vi, I see the following characters:
\302\240
Can someone explain what these characters mean. Is it ASCII format? I need to trim those characters from a file.
I am doing the following:
tr -d '\302\240'
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Hi all,
I was wondering how can i see the special characters like \t, \n or anything else in a file by using Nano or any other linux command like less, more etc (6 Replies)
i need to replace the any special characters with escape characters like below.
test!=123-> test\!\=123
!@#$%^&*()-= to be replaced by
\!\@\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\-\= (8 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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ctype_cntrl
CTYPE_CNTRL(3) 1 CTYPE_CNTRL(3)ctype_cntrl - Check for control character(s)SYNOPSIS
bool ctype_cntrl (string $text)
DESCRIPTION
Checks if all of the characters in the provided string, $text, are control characters. Control characters are e.g. line feed, tab, escape.
PARAMETERS
o $text
- The tested string.
RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE if every character in $text is a control character from the current locale, FALSE otherwise.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
A ctype_cntrl(3) example
<?php
$strings = array('string1' => "
", 'string2' => 'arf12');
foreach ($strings as $name => $testcase) {
if (ctype_cntrl($testcase)) {
echo "The string '$name' consists of all control characters.
";
} else {
echo "The string '$name' does not consist of all control characters.
";
}
}
?>
The above example will output:
The string 'string1' consists of all control characters.
The string 'string2' does not consist of all control characters.
NOTES
Note
If an integer between -128 and 255 inclusive is provided, it is interpreted as the ASCII value of a single character (negative val-
ues have 256 added in order to allow characters in the Extended ASCII range). Any other integer is interpreted as a string contain-
ing the decimal digits of the integer.
SEE ALSO ctype_print(3).
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