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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search and Replace Extended Ascii Characters Post 302923230 by ysvsr1 on Friday 31st of October 2014 11:16:19 AM
Old 10-31-2014
We are getting binary data from the external vendor. It is then processed using a C Program and the output is good, but occasionally we get these extended characters that too, in 1 record out of million records. So i can safely say that the file is not corrupted.

This is how the bad characters look in vi editor

Code:
�

The octal equivalent of the above three characters:

357 277 275

Jim, i ran your command and the output is 2
 

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