Re: Remove unprintable chars

[Daniel Gross <daniel@xxxxxxxx>]

I think you can remove all chars below x’40’ because these are generally not printable, or used as display attributes. 

The rest should work IMHO. 

HTH
Daniel

> Am 18.11.2021 um 20:30 schrieb Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> I'm preloading an old-school 5250 display file with data coming in from a
> Windows app.  Is there a good way to remove unprintable chars?  The RPG
> code is throwing a RNQ1251 (Permanent I/O error occurred in file &1).  I
> need to cleanse the data to prevent this.
>
> FWIW, the current char is x'12', which is DC2 per the code page 37 chart.
>
>
> TIA
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