Help ID characters

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lerebours, Jose" <Jose.Lerebours at EagleGL.com>
To: "Fplist (E-mail)" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 1:43 PM
Subject: Help ID characters


Howdy!

> SCO UNIX based ...
>
> Trying to use import ascii to read and process EDI file. Client
> sent me file which has
>
> a) when I cat file <85> between data blocks
> b) when I vi file \20 between data blocks
>
> I've tried using \20 as field and record delimiter
> but it wont take.
>
>
> What do you think I should use?

The "cat" comment above makes no sense, but the vi does, and based on that, 
octal 20 = decimal 16, thus:

chr("16")

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