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Old 07-06-2011
Handling Junk Characters
Urgently ur help is needed.

Actually my req is i have an input file, that input file may have junk characters (^M, ^Z) etc...
eg:
Code:
cat file
name abc^Z addres
name2 msdmskd^Z address2

I want to validate the record and display where exactly this junk character resides.

I want to display the record no, line number and the field which is having the junk character...

Is there is any specific command to do this...
Last edited by vbe; 07-06-2011 at 11:49 AM.. Reason: code tags...
# 2  
Old 07-06-2011
Code:
sed -n '/\^[A-Z]/=;/\^[A-Z]/p' file

Last edited by Franklin52; 07-06-2011 at 03:07 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
# 3  
Old 07-06-2011
Quote:
I want to display the record no, line number and the field which is having the junk character...

Is there is any specific command to do this...
No there is not a standard utility for doing this. However you can easily write a utility that will do what you are looking for.
# 4  
Old 07-06-2011
Code:
$cat > file
name abc^Z addres
name2 msdmskd^Z address2

$ sed -n '/\^[A-Z]/=;/\^[A-Z]/p' file
1
name abc^Z addres
2
name2 msdmskd^Z address2

This is not working..

Can anyone help please...
whats the utility to find the record and line no
Last edited by Franklin52; 07-06-2011 at 03:08 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
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