You can find out if it's goofy characters or plain ='s by filtering the script output through od. That will show the codes for all the characters it gets raw. eg:
C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>echo abc | od -t x1 0000000 61 62 63 20 0d 0a 0000006 That's the hex codes for a, b, c, space, CR, LF. Try viewing the output on the command line with more and less. Less will highlight non text characters. At 05:29 PM 5/26/05 -0700, Forrest Payne wrote: >I create a lot of reports with Perl formats. When view them with notepad, wordpad or word I see equals signs scatterd throughout the report. Below is an example. This not text my program is creating. When I send this report directly to the printer the "equals" signs are not printed. It appears that some weird characters are showing when I view it online that the printer ignores. -- REMEMBER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ---=< WTC 911 >=-- "...ne cede males" 00000100 _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
