Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:37:40 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cleaning a text file Message-ID: <19990216103740.60271@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19990216095232.J2207@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 09:52:32AM %2B1030 References: <19990215201056.19929@welearn.com.au> <Pine.BSF.3.91.990215010943.20451F-100000@dsinw.com> <19990216095232.J2207@lemis.com>
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On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 09:52:32AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Monday, 15 February 1999 at 1:10:36 -0800, rick hamell wrote:
> >
> >> Also, this file has some very long lines which would get truncated
> >> or unexpectedly wrapped when sent as email. And if there is something
> >> strange, I have to read it and guess what it should have been.
> >>
> >> Maybe someone will come up with something for this particular case.
> >> I can't believe there's not some little untility for this that's been
> >> hanging around unloved for years.
> >
> > Oy! Ok... how does Greg reformat all those emails?
>
> With Emacs. I have a collection of macros which I'm constantly
> changing to catch up with new tricks that mailers discover.
>
> To Sue's original question: it depends on what your text looks like.
> tr(1) will remove characters if you ask it to.
If I knew which characters were there (so I could ask tr to remove
them) I would have already removed them with my text editor.
> fmt(1) might be useful for wrapping lines.
I don't see the long line lengths as a big problem at this stage, but
fmt might be useful later.
The problem is that I don't know which funny characters exist in the
file, if any. I want to find out what they are, so I can search for
them and eyeball them before killing them.
Just knowing which characters they are would give me many solutions
immediately. There still doesn't seem to be a way to find this out :-(
Maybe there's a long way... somehow put a linefeed after each character
in the file (with sed?) and then sort it and look at the top and bottom
of the sorted file.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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