Gabriel M. Elder wrote: > 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... Why use a python script when the "tr" command will do it in one byte? -- over in west Philadelphia a puppy is vomiting ...
