David M. Cooke wrote: > Are you sure it's monkey/chicken/dog/cat, and not > monkey\chicken\dog\cat? The later one will print monkey\\chicken... > because of the repr() call. > > Also, you probably want it as [\x20-\x7e] (the DEL character \x7f > isn't printable). You're also missing tabs (\t). > > The GNU binutils string utility looks for \t or [\x20-\x7e].
Yeah, it is "monkey\chicken\dog\cat", thank you for pointing that out. I started snooping throught the sourcecode for 'strings' in binutils to see what it matches against, but I don't really know how to program, so you just saved me even more time. Thanks again! -CJL -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
