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Identifying invisible characters in Unix file

I have a file, which when you look at it, appears as if it has spaces....
But sometimes, it is has tab or Nulls or some other character which we are not able to see.....
How to find what character exactly it is in the file, where ever we are seeing a space... (Iam in solaris)...

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Code:

od -c filename

will show those characters as either octal numbers ex: \023, or
control characters like: ^M

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