Hello
I'm trying to remove null characters from a text file. I can resolve this by manually opening and saving the file with vi.However I want to do this automatically in a Perl script.What I have so far :
# Go through each line of find output
# psLine contains a file reference
# eg /temp/TextFile
foreach $psLine (@ps)
{
# Translate the TextFile to remove nulls
print $psLine;

}

jpm

In vi the null char displays as ^@ is that what you're wanting to remove or is it ^M from the end of the line?

Hi FishMonger,
The character I'm replacing is an ASCII null or NUL value which is 00. I cannot actually see the character with vi but when I open a file with the problem I see a message at the bottom indicating the quantity of nulls. Just doing :wq! clears the nulls from the file. In unix I have managed to delete the nulls by translating the file to another with the command
tr -d "\000" <TextFile >tempfile
What would be the equivalent in Perl ?
Thanks for replying.

jpm