Hi Rachel,
I have a little problem that I don't seem to be able to nut
out.
I have a file that's being processed by Perl that has a bunch of
"^@" symbols in it. This is the "Control-at" character.
It's more than that, it's the NUL character, chr(0). ^A is chr(1), ^B
is chr(2)... through to ^Z = chr(26), before that you get ^@ which is
chr(0). See the top of man ascii.
I want to expunge the file of all the "^@" symbols.
My entry in the "neat one liner" competition to do this is:
$ perl -p -i -e "s/\000//g" infile
in the days before Perl you would use sed to do it.
Regards,
Stuart.
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