Re: ascii nulls, awk, and tr

From: all mail refused (elvis_at_notatla.org.uk)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: 3 Aug 2004 21:22:59 GMT

In article <jppvg0lugiqg7csdiqvtfcqm6fe605j5un@4ax.com>, Gerard C Blais wrote:

>I'd like to delete the null characters.

>I also have a lot of other things to do to the rows, and I'm doing
>them in awk already, so adding something to an awk script would be a
>nice way to go.

perl 

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