On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:20:27AM +1100, Rachel Polanskis wrote:
> Guys,
> 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.
> I want to expunge the file of all the "^@" symbols.
>
> I know I can use the ^V function in vi to print these but it just doesn't work
> for this particular character - I can't get vi to print this character in my
> script!
>
> I would use "chr()" if I thought I knew what the literal string for
> a ^@ was but I don't and there's no info on the net I can find either.
>
> Can someone please enlighten me as to what I need to do to to rid myself
> of these ^@ symbols?
garfield:~# ascii ^@
ASCII 0/0 is decimal 000, hex 00, octal 000, bits 00000000: called ^@, NUL
Official name: Null
So it's just a null so something like
print $c unless ($c = 0);
>
>
> rachel
>
> Rachel Polanskis University of Western Sydney, Nepean
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