Re: Clearing bit 7?

From: mjt (mjtobler_at_removethis_mail.ru)
Date: 07/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 00:24:47 GMT

Forrest wrote:

> I've discovered some ancient text files that would be plain ASCII had
> not their characters' high bit gotten set by some bizarre accident.
>
> Is undoing this sort of damage something that can be addressed easily
> from the command line, or will programming be required? (Google is
> intimating the latter, but maybe I phrased the queries badly.)

the following should do it:

+++++++++++++++++++ snipline +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
#include <stdio.h>

int main( )
{
        char ch ;

        while( (ch = getchar()) != EOF )
        {
                ch = ch & 0177;
                putchar( ch ) ;
        }

        return( 0 );
}
+++++++++++++++++++ snipline +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 

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