On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 14:16 -0600, sharif islam wrote: > Hi, > I have a text file imported from filemaker pro. When I open it in vi i > see several ^]. Is this some sort of row delimiter? It's not a carriage return. It is a control character: ctrl-]. Its numeric value is as follows: oct dec hex char === === === ==== 35 29 1d ^] I doubt it's anything that vi is artificially inserting. As for its specific use and function in the filemaker pro file format, that'd take some research to determine that. Is their presence/visibility in your editor problematic for whatever it is you're trying to do? If so, it wouldn't take much to whip up a short python script to strip those out... - gabriel
