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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to remove escape sequences from a text file? Post 302957209 by jgt on Thursday 8th of October 2015 08:16:31 AM
Old 10-08-2015
Those are pcl5 escape sequences. Search pcl2txt.

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If you want to write your own, the general rule is, delete all characters following an 'esc' (x027) until either a space or an upper case letter. The upper case letter should also be deleted, but not the space.
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TOUPPER(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						TOUPPER(3)

NAME
toupper -- lower case to upper case letter conversion LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <ctype.h> int toupper(int c); DESCRIPTION
The toupper() function converts a lower-case letter to the corresponding upper-case letter. RETURN VALUES
If the argument is a lower-case letter, the toupper() function returns the corresponding upper-case letter if there is one; otherwise the argument is returned unchanged. SEE ALSO
ctype(3), isalnum(3), isalpha(3), isascii(3), iscntrl(3), isdigit(3), isgraph(3), islower(3), isprint(3), ispunct(3), isspace(3), isupper(3), isxdigit(3), stdio(3), toascii(3), ascii(7) STANDARDS
The toupper() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89''). CAVEATS
The argument to toupper() must be EOF or representable as an unsigned char; otherwise, the behavior is undefined. See the CAVEATS section of ctype(3) for more details. BSD
April 17, 2008 BSD
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