Re: grep question - how to strip spaces from the beginning ofa string?

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2002


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 45125
interpreted = N
texte = dale's stuff wrote:> Thank you John! > > If I may, one more.... would it be better to use grep to change an > accented charactor to the non-accented one or just use a convertchars db? >No, because you actually want to change a set of characters into different characters. Grep itself is not good at this sort of translation; you should use convertchars instead.John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: grep question - how to strip spaces from the beginning ofa string? (Gyuri 2002)
  2. Re: grep question - how to strip spaces from the beginning ofa string? (John Peacock 2002)
  3. Re: grep question - how to strip spaces from the beginning ofa string? (Kenneth Grome 2002)
  4. Re: grep question - how to strip spaces from the beginning ofa string? (Gyuri 2002)
  5. Re: grep question - how to strip spaces from the beginning ofa string? (dale's stuff 2002)
  6. Re: grep question - how to strip spaces from the beginning ofa string? (dale's stuff 2002)
  7. Re: grep question - how to strip spaces from the beginning ofa string? (John Peacock 2002)
  8. Re: grep question - how to strip spaces from the beginning ofa string? (Gyuri 2002)
dale's stuff wrote:> Thank you John! > > If I may, one more.... would it be better to use grep to change an > accented charactor to the non-accented one or just use a convertchars db? >No, because you actually want to change a set of characters into different characters. Grep itself is not good at this sort of translation; you should use convertchars instead.John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ John Peacock

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