First this code.
I did except that I always save odd unprintables to a drawer of my choice and had never
seen that one so I used that method. It stems from AMIGA CLI shell scripting, boy is that
difficult and limited, as I could create a strange character without using the SET command.
I won't go any further with this part as is it not relevant to UNIX scripting.
Secondly.
DRAT! That must be __dyslexia__ setting in, "-p" should be "-d", not a prompt...
I must admit I did use read on its own but thought it better that "\n"
should be taken into account...
Hi everybody. I need help and I hope someone is willing to help me out here.
My wholesale company is currently moving to new software. The old software is running on a UNIX platform. We need to migrate data from the UNIX system, but our former software provider refuses to assist the data... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
Please help me out with a script which checks whether a given file say abc.txt is in ASCII format and data is tab-delimited. If the condition doesn't satisfy then it should generate error code "100" for file not in ASCII format and "105" if it is not in tab-delimited format.
If the... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I am using "fetchmail" and "procmail" combination to trigger a job based on an input mail.Using fetchmail, incoming mail is downloaded from the mailserver to the local host.Once the mail is flushed,procmail starts execution and thereby triggers the application script.
In-between... (3 Replies)
Hello Gurus,
I have a text file containing nearly 12,000 tab delimited characters with 4000 rows. If the file size is small, excel can convert the text into coloumns. However, the file that I have is very big. Can some body help me in solving this problem?
The input file example,
... (6 Replies)
I have a text file with irregular spacing between values which makes it really difficult to manipulate. Is there an easy way to convert it into a space delimited text file so that all the spaces, double spaces, triple spaces, tabs between numbers are converted into spaces. The file looks like this:... (5 Replies)
Dear Madam / Sir,
My Boss need to reorganize :rolleyes: the text file ready for DB import, here show you the requirment and seems not difficult but how to make it by shell script or other programming language effectively.
FILE1 :
user1,location1,location2,locatoin3,seat1,seat2,seat3... (4 Replies)
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Hi Guys,
I am new on the scripting world and would like ask for help if you can.
Here are my questions... (1 Reply)
Hi, I have a rquirement in unix as below .
I have a text file with me seperated by | symbol and i need to generate a excel file through unix commands/script so that each value will go to each column.
ex:
Input Text file:
1|A|apple
2|B|bottle
excel file to be generated as output as... (9 Replies)
<Any suggestion how to create a file where the values are separated by ASCII code 1,with data extracted from a table using shell script The format is :/>
<columnname1(binary1)columnvalue(binary1)columnname2(binary1)columnvalue(binary1)columnname3(binary1)columnvalue... 1st row/>... (6 Replies)
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ctype_graph
CTYPE_GRAPH(3) 1 CTYPE_GRAPH(3)ctype_graph - Check for any printable character(s) except spaceSYNOPSIS
bool ctype_graph (string $text)
DESCRIPTION
Checks if all of the characters in the provided string, $text, creates visible output.
PARAMETERS
o $text
- The tested string.
RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE if every character in $text is printable and actually creates visible output (no white space), FALSE otherwise.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
A ctype_graph(3) example
<?php
$strings = array('string1' => "asdf
", 'string2' => 'arf12', 'string3' => 'LKA#@%.54');
foreach ($strings as $name => $testcase) {
if (ctype_graph($testcase)) {
echo "The string '$name' consists of all (visibly) printable characters.
";
} else {
echo "The string '$name' does not consist of all (visibly) printable characters.
";
}
}
?>
The above example will output:
The string 'string1' does not consist of all (visibly) printable characters.
The string 'string2' consists of all (visibly) printable characters.
The string 'string3' consists of all (visibly) printable 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_alnum(3), ctype_print(3), ctype_punct(3).
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