I've got a few reports that are generated by a third-party app that we use and the raw report files include incomprehensible strings at the beginning of each page like so:
&k2S&l6D Sometimes there are control characters (shown below as normal text i.e. ^D~Q) throughout the file: 1úù^E~I/~X/~Cù;SELF FUNDING ADMINISTRATORSù7PAGE:ù^E1úù^ELXCVELEXù?ELIGIBILITY EXTRACTú ú GROUP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTERú ú ú GROUP NAMEù^H: ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTERù^FPLAN: Â~@ RX CARDú AS OF ~H/~A/~V~Cú ú TOTAL PARTICIPANTS :ù^D~Qú TOTAL DEPENDENTSù^C:ù^D~Mú ú DOS FILENAME : l:/work/ex~C~I~Xî³úû What kind of text/coding/whatever is this and what tools are available that I can use to search for this content (to remove it)? I've never really had to deal with anything other than alphanumeric characters. Do I need to search for certain octal/hex codes to find these? Ryan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
