Re: carriage return

[Ed Greshko <Ed Greshko greshko com>]

Gabriel M. Elder wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 14:16 -0600, sharif islam wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have a text file imported from filemaker pro. When I open it in vi i
>> see several ^]. Is this some sort of row delimiter?
> 
> It's not a carriage return. It is a control character: ctrl-]. Its
> numeric value is as follows:
> oct     dec     hex     char
> ===     ===     ===     ====
>  35      29      1d       ^]
> 
> I doubt it's anything that vi is artificially inserting. As for its
> specific use and function in the filemaker pro file format, that'd take
> some research to determine that.
> 
> Is their presence/visibility in your editor problematic for whatever it
> is you're trying to do? If so, it wouldn't take much to whip up a short
> python script to strip those out...

Why use a python script when the "tr" command will do it in one byte?


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