Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 09:02:00 -0600 From: Jeremy Vandenhouten <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu> To: Steve the teco <steve@red.hot.net.au>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing escape chr (printer) Message-ID: <2ce8522d2567.2d25672ce852@marquette.edu>
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> The problem is the text is full of printer codes > <SNIP> > ^[^[&a8R^[^[&f0S^[^[&a4C^[^[&f0S^[*c2221A^[*c95B^[*c15G^[*c2P^[*c4A^ [*c1852B^[*c0P^[*c2221A^[*c4B^[*c0P^[*p+59Y^[*p > +200X^[^[(s0p10h0s3b4099TPROJECT > COST^[*p+330X^[*p-20Y^[^[(s0p17h0s3b4099T1999^[*p+40Y^[*p- > 85XActual^[*p-40Y^[*p+70 > X2000^[*p+40Y^[*p-89XBudget^[*p-40Y^[^[&f0S > </SNIP> Someone probably already beat me to this, but the easiest way is to write a shell or Perl script to look for control characters and remove them. I have something similar at work that looks for ^M when I receive text files written in MS format to remove all the ^M's. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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