Re: file encoding prob.

igthibau@xxxxxxxxxx writes:

Dan Espen wrote:

igthibau@xxxxxxxxxx writes:

Hi there,
Right, I wrote a fortran code that reads text files and produces output.
The problem is that the files I created to test the code work fine. But
files I get from "outside", even if as ascii contain control codes that
screw things up.

Things like ^@^M and such.

dos2unix does nothing.

So, the big question is : how does one strip files from these codes, or
change them to linux standards?

This is the one thing that prevents the process to work and I am running
out of ideas here.

First be more exact in your problem description.
The "and such" part is throwing me off.

well they are the codes I see : ^X , where X=F or @ or M or D...


If you see the above symbols, you'd have to tell use which program
showed them.

gvim, vi

Better to run "od -x" and tell us if it's line endings
only or something else.
they occur within text : sample : (the numbers are line no.)

49 ^B^@^@^@er ^B^@^@^@er
50 ce ce
51 ^F^@^@^@lenge ^F^@^@^@lenge
52 réservé réservé

A little.

It doesn't look like any fortran I've ever seen.
I'm not sure vi is a good vehicle for viewing actual
file contents. I'd trust xemacs more.
Are you sure the data you want is there?

^@ is usually NULL you can remove NULLs with sed.
something like:

s/\000//
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: file encoding prob.
    ... I wrote a fortran code that reads text files and produces output. ... The problem is that the files I created to test the code work fine. ... change them to linux standards? ... First be more exact in your problem description. ...
    (comp.os.linux.misc)
  • Re: file encoding prob.
    ... I wrote a fortran code that reads text files and produces output. ... The problem is that the files I created to test the code work fine. ... how does one strip files from these codes, or ... change them to linux standards? ...
    (comp.os.linux.misc)
  • file encoding prob.
    ... I wrote a fortran code that reads text files and produces output. ... The problem is that the files I created to test the code work fine. ... how does one strip files from these codes, or ... change them to linux standards? ...
    (comp.os.linux.misc)