Re: [Expectperl-discuss] parsing non-ascii char's

[Christian G. <cg...@hq...>]

> Thx for your suggestion and I can see some merit here.
> I am, however, starting to think I am off topic for this
> list.
>
> My real problem is that I do not have multiple lines of
> data to parse. It's all one long line with lots of
> control chars.
>
> When I print the data to a file
>   cat <filename>
> shows output that looks just like my telnet session.
>   cat -v <filename>
> shows all the ugly special chars
>   wc -l <filename>
> shows I have one line of data and
>   cat <filename> | wc -l
> still tells me I have one line of data.

What you need here is a terminal emulator. If you're really unlucky, the
other side will optimize redraws and you will not easily get the correct
picture. As a first step, you could simply try ignoring the special chars,
but you may end up having to emulate the screen and do "screen scraping".
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cg