Hi all,
I was editing my c++ file in sun-solaris and then when i ran the make file i got an error saying some junk char not defined in the file,later when i opened i found my C++ file that iw as eidting was full of junks,i guess it wud have been changed to a binary file?

Can anybody helpo me out in converting the file to ascii format??
This is very urgent !!!!!!!!

Hi,

This reply is two days late. I do not know if it is usefull now. but still:

First thing to do:
You can see what junk charactres have invaded your file by giving command

$ cat -v youfilename.cpp > exposed.cpp

then you can see in the exposed.cpp by vi editor or anything to see the junk characters . If there are only a few then you can delete them

But if they are so many then you have to wite a c program which reads file charcter by character and writes it to another file ONLY IF that character is a PRINTABLE character.

You check whether the character is printable using a C library function defined in /usr/include/ctype.h

and the function is

int isprint(int ch);

Hope this works.

Jai Vrat Singh