Help ID characters

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Brian K. White propounded (on Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:14:25PM -0500):
| From: "Lerebours, Jose" <Jose.Lerebours at EagleGL.com>
| >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")

Chr("16") is Control-P, and in vi, it looks like ^P, not like \20.

So I, for one, still don't know what Jose is looking at.

Jose, run the file through less.  What then?

| http://www.asciitable.com/

Instead of that URL, Jose could look at /usr/pub/ascii.

-- 
JP