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Old 06-29-2011
To Generate control chars[^M, ^C etc]
Hi Experts,

Please let me know, how to generate control characters in a file.

I want to test my script which will check for any control characters in a file[.dat] before loading the data into the PRD Database.

Thanks in Advance,
Sapy.
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Old 06-29-2011
Code:
 
vi file_name
 
enter ctrl-V ctrl-M / ctrl-V ctrl-C to generate ^M and ^C respectively.

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saps19
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Old 06-29-2011
Thanks Panyam, however my script is still not working.

Now it's working. Missed '/' in my script.
Last edited by saps19; 06-29-2011 at 01:34 PM.. Reason: Silly mistake...!
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