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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove non printing chars Post 51846 by oti on Thursday 3rd of June 2004 12:44:04 PM
Old 06-03-2004
mbb, thank you for your answer.

For me 'non-printing characters' are the characters with hex codes between 20 and 7E (inclusive) plus tab, carriage return, line feed (see www.asciitable.com).
 

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