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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Strange results from 'strings | sort' Post 303038698 by RudiC on Wednesday 11th of September 2019 04:00:58 PM
Old 09-11-2019
My guess is you have some string that sorts between "dispatchers" and "event", separated from "mydb" by a carriage return (<CR> = \r = 0x0D = ^M) character. string can be told to include all white space chars in its output.
Run string's output through a hexdump, e.g. od -tx1c, and look for \r occurrances.
 

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RTRIM(3)								 1								  RTRIM(3)

rtrim - Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the end of a string

SYNOPSIS
string rtrim (string $str, [string $character_mask]) DESCRIPTION
This function returns a string with whitespace stripped from the end of $str. Without the second parameter, rtrim(3) will strip these characters: o " " (ASCII 32 ( 0x20)), an ordinary space. o " " (ASCII 9 ( 0x09)), a tab. o " " (ASCII 10 ( 0x0A)), a new line (line feed). o " " (ASCII 13 ( 0x0D)), a carriage return. o "" (ASCII 0 ( 0x00)), the NULL-byte. o "x0B" (ASCII 11 ( 0x0B)), a vertical tab. PARAMETERS
o $str - The input string. o $character_mask - You can also specify the characters you want to strip, by means of the $character_mask parameter. Simply list all characters that you want to be stripped. With .. you can specify a range of characters. RETURN VALUES
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Example #1 Usage example of rtrim(3) <?php $text = " These are a few words :) ... "; $binary = "x09Example stringx0A"; $hello = "Hello World"; var_dump($text, $binary, $hello); print " "; $trimmed = rtrim($text); var_dump($trimmed); $trimmed = rtrim($text, " ."); var_dump($trimmed); $trimmed = rtrim($hello, "Hdle"); var_dump($trimmed); // trim the ASCII control characters at the end of $binary // (from 0 to 31 inclusive) $clean = rtrim($binary, "x00..x1F"); var_dump($clean); ?> The above example will output: string(32) " These are a few words :) ... " string(16) " Example string " string(11) "Hello World" string(30) " These are a few words :) ..." string(26) " These are a few words :)" string(9) "Hello Wor" string(15) " Example string" SEE ALSO
trim(3), ltrim(3). PHP Documentation Group RTRIM(3)
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