How to enter special Chars in VI ~R ~V

[bonzocs]

Hi All,

I'm having a little difficulty with char sets. Anyway I have generated this XML file, but it contains the following chars which is blowing the parser:

• ~R
• ~V
• ^M

Now I know how to enter the ^M by entering <ctrl v><ctrl m>. Can anyone let me know how I actually enter the other chars into vi?

Basically like the ^M I want to remove them using %s/~R//g

Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks

[eggi]

Hey There,

For the tilde (~) in vi, you just need to backslash on your match like

&#37;s/\~R//g

to get rid of that.

Best wishes

, Mike

[wwwjscom]

Hi All,

I'm having a little difficulty with char sets. Anyway I have generated this XML file, but it contains the following chars which is blowing the parser:

• ~R
• ~V
• ^M

Now I know how to enter the ^M by entering <ctrl v><ctrl m>. Can anyone let me know how I actually enter the other chars into vi?

Basically like the ^M I want to remove them using %s/~R//g

Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks

Anyone know an answer to this? I"m have the exact same problem. The ~R is a special character, just like ^M, so its cannot be found using from (from the several ways I've tried at least). Doing :%s/\~R//g does not work for the same reason it wouldn't work when searching for ^M -- they are special (blue) characters.

I've tried converting the document with dos2unix - only gets rid of ^M's, not ~R.
Tried grep and perl searches, they cannot find the ~R.
Tried converting the document to hex with od -x, still didn't find it.

If anyone knows of a way to search and replace these things, I will be very grateful! I have ~4k xml files that have this issue.

Thanks!

[wwwjscom]

Solved this FYI.

~R in hex is 0x96, I found that out by putting my cursor over it in vim, and the status bar of vim reads out the characters byte value. I then wrote a quick perl script to find and replace all of them (along with 0x92 which I believe are the ^V characters).

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Deletes all invalid characters in XML reports. To find out what the hex value is
# open the file in vim and it'll say something like bytval=0x92, take the last two numbers
# and add them to the regex below.
# www.wikitechie.org
for i in `ls *.xml`; do perl -pi -e "s/(\x92)|(\x96)//g" "$i" ; done