RE: Non-printing Characters

2006-02-23 Thread Ryan Frantz
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Tom Phoenix > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:43 PM > To: Ryan Frantz > Cc: beginners@perl.org > Subject: Re: Non-printing Characters > > On 2/23/06, Ryan Frant

Re: Non-printing Characters

2006-02-23 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 2/23/06, Ryan Frantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 I wonder whether those are supposed to be escape sequ

Non-printing Characters

2006-02-23 Thread Ryan Frantz
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: 1รบรน^E~I/~X/