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Re: Editor to find and replace hidden chars, strip controls?

#3491
From: George Jetson
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 14:00
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In article <1992Oct5.015911.3335@netcom.com> whedon@netcom.com (Bill Whedon) writes:
>In article <92278.184011RVK@psuvm.psu.edu> <RVK@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>>Where can I find an editor that can find and replace hidden characters,
>>strip control characters and linefeeds?  Essentially, I need to strip a
>>large number of linefeeds from a data acquisition file.  Thanks in advance.

>Why bother with an editor?  Here's source for a simple filter which will take
>out all CR and LF characters (0x0D and 0x0A) for you:

(fine .c program deleted)

Or, how about:

	awk "BEGIN {ORS=foo} {print}" oldfile > newfile

You do have AWK on your DOS machine, don't you?

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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
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