I'm afraid above is NOT the binary representation of a well-formed text file (many zero bytes, mal-formed multibyte chars, malformed single byte chars, ...).
While
would reconstruct an ASCII file, the result of it applied to every other line of your file yields
A few chars are recognizable ("\", "A", "B", etc), but the main part is garbage.
I have a text file that is the output of a Netbackup report. The file it generates is just a plain text file with only white space between fields. For example:
Date Policy Type Kilobytes Retention
12/5/2005 WinNT Full 18329948 6 Months
I... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a print control file (dflt) for Oracle which is in binary. As I am going to develope an application in Window environment, I would like to reference the dflt file. But it is in binary format and I cannot access it. Anyone can suggest me how to convert the file into text or... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I need to convert a text file formatted like this ("tshark -z conv,ip" output) to HTML:
=====================================================================================================
IPv4 Conversations
Filter:<No Filter>
| <- ... (4 Replies)
In Unix/Ksh, when I try to look inside a file it says that the file may be a binary file and if I want to see it anyway. When i say 'yes', it shows me the content filled with unreadable symbols (looks like binary). Is there a command that I can run from the Unix prompt to convert/translate that... (3 Replies)
Not sure the most effient way to do this.
I have figiured out how to extract columns with shell script, but not sure how to convert
This is what I have...
NEWDNS 04-Jun-2011 06:00:59.762 10.220.136.217 crl.verisign.com
This is what I need.... Change date, remove mil seconds,... (1 Reply)
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)
Hello guys,
We had to move from a DC to another, and we are now facing an "issue" with some text files.
Looks like that some of our log files are set as binary:
file TuxConnectorURA.20121012
TuxConnectorURA.20121012: data or International Language text
less TuxConnectorURA.20121012... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I do have a file with many lines (rows) and it is space delimited. For example: I have a file named SR345_pl.txt. If I open it in an editor, it looks like this:
adfr A2 0.9345
dtgr/2 A2 0.876
fgh/3 A2 023.76
fghe/4 A2 2345
bnhy/1 A3 3456
bhy A3 0.9876
phy A5 0.987
kdrt A5... (9 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a binary file which is being exported from a Database, and i need to convert that to ASCII format. How can i achieve that? And this solution should work for any file which is given to us; means they will give different files from different tables.
Thanks in advance. (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: baranisachin
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
multibyte
MULTIBYTE(3) BSD Library Functions Manual MULTIBYTE(3)NAME
multibyte -- multibyte and wide character manipulation functions
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <limits.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <wchar.h>
DESCRIPTION
The basic elements of some written natural languages, such as Chinese, cannot be represented uniquely with single C chars. The C standard
supports two different ways of dealing with extended natural language encodings: wide characters and multibyte characters. Wide characters
are an internal representation which allows each basic element to map to a single object of type wchar_t. Multibyte characters are used for
input and output and code each basic element as a sequence of C chars. Individual basic elements may map into one or more (up to MB_LEN_MAX)
bytes in a multibyte character.
The current locale (setlocale(3)) governs the interpretation of wide and multibyte characters. The locale category LC_CTYPE specifically
controls this interpretation. The wchar_t type is wide enough to hold the largest value in the wide character representations for all
locales.
Multibyte strings may contain 'shift' indicators to switch to and from particular modes within the given representation. If explicit bytes
are used to signal shifting, these are not recognized as separate characters but are lumped with a neighboring character. There is always a
distinguished 'initial' shift state. Some functions (e.g., mblen(3), mbtowc(3) and wctomb(3)) maintain static shift state internally,
whereas others store it in an mbstate_t object passed by the caller. Shift states are undefined after a call to setlocale(3) with the
LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL categories.
For convenience in processing, the wide character with value 0 (the null wide character) is recognized as the wide character string termina-
tor, and the character with value 0 (the null byte) is recognized as the multibyte character string terminator. Null bytes are not permitted
within multibyte characters.
The C library provides the following functions for dealing with multibyte characters:
Function Description
mblen(3) get number of bytes in a character
mbrlen(3) get number of bytes in a character (restartable)
mbrtowc(3) convert a character to a wide-character code (restartable)
mbsrtowcs(3) convert a character string to a wide-character string (restartable)
mbstowcs(3) convert a character string to a wide-character string
mbtowc(3) convert a character to a wide-character code
wcrtomb(3) convert a wide-character code to a character (restartable)
wcstombs(3) convert a wide-character string to a character string
wcsrtombs(3) convert a wide-character string to a character string (restartable)
wctomb(3) convert a wide-character code to a character
SEE ALSO mklocale(1), setlocale(3), stdio(3), big5(5), euc(5), gb18030(5), gb2312(5), gbk(5), mskanji(5), utf8(5)STANDARDS
These functions conform to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (``ISO C99'').
BSD April 8, 2004 BSD