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I decided to strip out the NULLs and replace with spaces. I could not get tr to work either. Maybe an issue with Solaris??
Below perl code worked though:

perl -pe 's/\000/ /g' file > newfile
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just realized one of my lines I edited was long. re-attached

uploaded example of input. You can see NULL values in TextPad editor. Don't use in notepad and wordpad - they show up as spaces. In UNIX vi - the values are ignored.

my point was that both your code and mine are not working. Let me try to explain my problem again. I have a fixed length file that I am reading every line and making sure every line is exactly 161...

Thanks - but that code actually stops at the first NULL and truncates the line length and fails the length check.
Any other ideas

Hello,
I am checking the length of each line of a fixed length file and making sure all lines are 161 length. My problem is that some files contain null characters which gets stripped out of my...