Re: strings printing bug

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:42 PM,  <evan9021@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I tried your suggestion and got the following output:
>  1) the first col didn't print, and the 3rd col overwrote the 2nd; this
>  is the main stumbling block
>  2) also, what if example.txt has 36 lines with the same format as
>  described.
>  FYI I'm using cgywin's version of perl.
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It sounds like you have some control characters in your data.  Run
this against the file and tell us what it outputs

perl -ne 'chomp; print map { ord, "\n" } /([[:cntrl:]])/g' example.txt

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