In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am working with a text format that advises to strip any ascii control
> characters (0 - 30) as part of parsing data and also the ascii pipe
> character (124) from the data. I think many of these characters are
> from a different time. Since I have never seen most of these characters
> in text I am not sure how these first 30 control characters are all
> represented (other than say tab (\t), newline(\n), line return(\r) ) so
> what should I do to remove these characters if they are ever
> encountered. Many thanks.
Most of those characters are hard to see.
Represent arbitrary characters in a string in hex: "\x00\x01\x02" or
with chr(n).
If you just want to remove some characters, look into "".translate().
nullxlate = "".join([chr(n) for n in xrange(256)])
delchars = nullxlate[:31] + chr(124)
outputstr = inputstr.translate(nullxlate, delchars)
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