Thanks for telling me that <space> is being treated like non-printable character. But I want this seach to look for all NON UTF-8 characters actually, I don't have any inkling on how to check those?
The XML file of the application takes only UTF-8 characters and anything other than this will not let the jobs run through this application. Hence is there any way to check for UTF-8 characters? Can you please suggest?
For e.g.
The highlighted character shown in the file is what I've in my application which when seen in unix appears to be ^Y. How to identify such characters?
I need to check ftp'd incoming files for characters that are not alphanumeric,<tab>, <cr>, or <lf> characters. Each file would have 10-20,000 line with up to 3,000 characters per line. Should I use awk, sed, or grep and what would the command look like to do such a search? Thanks much to anyone... (2 Replies)
How could I check if a string variable contains at least (or only) 2 characters, and check and make sure that the string does not contain any numeric digits?...I need to know how to do this as simple as possible. and I am using the Ksh shell. Thanks. (1 Reply)
Sometimes obvious things... are not so obvious. I always thought that it was possible to grep non printable characters but not with my GNU grep (5.2.1) version.
printf "Hello\tWorld" | grep -l '\t'
printf "Hello\tWorld" | grep -l '\x09'
printf "Hello\tWorld" | grep -l '\x{09}'
None of them... (3 Replies)
I have been using OKI data Microline printers; models 590 and 591 to print a bar code using the following escape sequence:
\E^PA^H^C00^D^C^A^A^A\E^PB^H
The escape sequence is stored in a unix file which is edited using vi.
Now, we are considering Microline printer model 395C and the bar code... (3 Replies)
cp $l_options $srcdirfile $destdirfile
If i want to check whether there is a non printable character in the variables
$l_options $srcdirfile $destdirfile
how it can be done? (2 Replies)
Hi,
We have a non printable character "®" in our file , we want to remove this character, we tried tr -dc '' < oldfile> newfile but this command is removing all new line entries along with the non printable character and all the records are coming in one line(it is changing the format of the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
in a file, i have records as below:
123|62|absnb|267629
123|267|28728|uiuip
123|567|26761|2676
i want to remove the non printable characters after the end of each record.
I guess there are certain charcters but not visible.
i don't know what character that is exactly.
I used... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a huge file (50 Mil rows) which has certain non-printable ASCII characters in it. I am cleaning the file by deleting those characters using the following command -
tr -cd '\11\12\15\40-\176' < unclean_file > clean_file
Please note that I am excluding the following -
tab,... (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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