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I have a little DOS .EXE program I wrote a couple of years ago that
strips certain high ASCII characters from some of my colour-formatted
text files. I can re-jig it to remove "%20%" and replace each with a
" " (space) character, if that will help, and if there isn't something
else that's better.
Just ask. It is a command-line thing.
And I am sure it can even be set up to run from Arachne if required.
Later: I have re-written the .EXE and it now will remove every occurrence
of the text string specified in the second commandline parameter, from
the file nameed in the first CLP, and replace each with a single blank space.
Anybody want it ?
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke
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There is a Unix-native program, sed (Stream EDitor), that might do things like
this, and there is a DOS port in the GNU/DJGPP archive. But it is not just a
matter of converting all occurrences of %20 into spaces, though that would make
some URLs non-runnable, since there were many other occurrences of %nn, where
nn represents two hexadecimal digits. Now I wonder what program was used to
make all those %nn codes. It seems they do that excessively to obscure some
URLs, such as when http://arachne.cz becomes http%3A%2F%2Farachne%2Ecz
This sample was hand-coded by me.
