This helped out considerably!  I found that there are 3 CR's at the
beginning of each line..  stripping these out makes it all work
perfectly :)

Thanks,

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 10:44, Christopher Kruslicky wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 January 2003 3:11 pm, Jason Frisvold wrote:
> > This works great :)
> >
> > Still curious what's in that line, but ...
> >
> > Is there a way to show the raw output?
> >
> 
> 
> a very good and useful idea :)  it's a regex that matches from ' ' thru '~', 
> which according to the ascii chart are the first and last printable 
> characters:
> 
> | 00 nul| 01 soh| 02 stx| 03 etx| 04 eot| 05 enq| 06 ack| 07 bel|
> | 08 bs | 09 ht | 0a nl | 0b vt | 0c np | 0d cr | 0e so | 0f si |
> | 10 dle| 11 dc1| 12 dc2| 13 dc3| 14 dc4| 15 nak| 16 syn| 17 etb|
> | 18 can| 19 em | 1a sub| 1b esc| 1c fs | 1d gs | 1e rs | 1f us |
> | 20 sp | 21  ! | 22  " | 23  # | 24  $ | 25  % | 26  & | 27  ' |
> | 28  ( | 29  ) | 2a  * | 2b  + | 2c  , | 2d  - | 2e  . | 2f  / |
> | 30  0 | 31  1 | 32  2 | 33  3 | 34  4 | 35  5 | 36  6 | 37  7 |
> | 38  8 | 39  9 | 3a  : | 3b  ; | 3c  < | 3d  = | 3e  > | 3f  ? |
> | 40  @ | 41  A | 42  B | 43  C | 44  D | 45  E | 46  F | 47  G |
> | 48  H | 49  I | 4a  J | 4b  K | 4c  L | 4d  M | 4e  N | 4f  O |
> | 50  P | 51  Q | 52  R | 53  S | 54  T | 55  U | 56  V | 57  W |
> | 58  X | 59  Y | 5a  Z | 5b  [ | 5c  \ | 5d  ] | 5e  ^ | 5f  _ |
> | 60  ` | 61  a | 62  b | 63  c | 64  d | 65  e | 66  f | 67  g |
> | 68  h | 69  i | 6a  j | 6b  k | 6c  l | 6d  m | 6e  n | 6f  o |
> | 70  p | 71  q | 72  r | 73  s | 74  t | 75  u | 76  v | 77  w |
> | 78  x | 79  y | 7a  z | 7b  { | 7c  | | 7d  } | 7e  ~ | 7f del|
> 
> 
> to show raw output, compare these:
> $ perl -e '$tmp=sprintf "%s", "123"; print "...$tmp...\n";'
> ...123...
> $ perl -e '$tmp=sprintf "%vx", "123"; print "...$tmp...\n";'
> ...31.32.33...
> 
> in %vd, 'v' is perl-specific, in this case outputting the ascii value of 
> each character in the string.  Note the values are in hex to match the 
> ascii chart above.
> 
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 14:52, John W. Krahn wrote:
> > > Jason Frisvold wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > >         I'm using the Net::Telnet module to automate some of the more
> > > > menial tasks I have to deal with every so often.  Part of the task
> > > > requires parsing a stream of data from the device I'm telnetting to
> > > > (A Marconi ASX-200 to be exact) ...  I've successfully set up the
> > > > telnet, logged in, and executed the proper commands.  Now, however, I
> > > > need to retrieve data from the device.  I can submit the command and
> > > > use getline() to retrieve lines, one at a time, and parse it. 
> > > > However, there are "hidden" characters here and I don't know how to
> > > > determine what they are.
> > > >
> > > > Here is a quick snippet of the code :
> > > >
> > > > $Telnet->print("sec log sho");
> > > > while (my $line = $Telnet->getline(Timeout => 5,)) {
> > > >         chomp $line;
> > >
> > > Instead of chomp (because this will remove newlines as well) use this:
> > >
> > >         # remove every character NOT in the range ' ' to '~' inclusive
> > >         $line =~ s/[^ -~]+//g;
> > >
> > > >         print "--->>>>$line<<<<---\n";
> > > > }
> > >
> > > John
> > > --
> > > use Perl;
> > > program
> > > fulfillment
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