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Old 08-09-2012
special characters in front of xml declaration

Hi

I read xml files through mq and placed them on unix by using datastage as tool.

I can see some special characters infront of declaration part for every xml file i have produced.

below is the sample snippet when i opened the file by suing vi editor

Code:
^Z^E|^A^Z^Z<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ABC>
<time_st>2011-08-01 12:37:06<time_st>
</ABC>

is there any way i can remove those special characters.

Thanks
dsdev_123
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Mod Comment Please use code tags next time for your code and data.
# 2  
Old 08-09-2012
Can you pipe that line through hexdump -C so we can see exactly what it is?

You can't just remove all special characters, or you'll ruin any UTF-8 extended characters, you need to be exact.
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