Re: unprintable or non-visible characters

[a4g atl <a4ginatl2@xxxxxxxxx>]

All, in the end I found it easier to write a small RPG program to do the
cleanup. I first tried a SQLRPGLE program and it failed when reading the
first record. I then rewrote it in basic RPG with native processing. This
program had no problem reading the data and I was able to clean up the bad
characters.

Thanks for the help. Darryl Freinkel.


On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 6:35 PM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Stephen,
>
> Am 06.01.2022 um 23:16 schrieb Stephen Landess <steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > :
>
> > I'm not one, but perhaps one of the Unix/Linux/AIX gurus here can show
> how to to do it with QSH and sed...
>
> Since the OP wasn't very detailed about which characters he's wary of, and
> which language he's using, some there might be different approaches.
>
> expand - convert tabs to spaces - https://linux.die.net/man/1/expand
>
> tr - translate or delete characters - https://linux.die.net/man/1/tr
>
> As far as I've experienced myself, REXX is very sensitive to wrong line
> endings, eventhough the file looks good in SEU. Can't recall how RPGLE
> behaves. I have read about people colorizing their RPG source by hand in
> SEU by inserting the appropriate 5250 sequences. If the compiler doesn't
> complain over such "garbage", I bet it's forgiving in many ways.
>
> :wq! PoC
>
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