[ale] sed question: matching ASCII escape
Danny Cox
danscox at mindspring.com
Mon Mar 31 12:05:08 EST 2003
Kevin,
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 23:53, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> I am trying to remove ANSI X3.64 escape sequences from a BBS game log
> file. This regex matches the escape commands:
>
> \[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z]
>
> ...except for the ASCII 'ESC' that precedes a command. I have tried
> prepending \e, \033, and \x1b, but for some reason that doesn't match
> the escape characters.
Sed is kinda stupid when it comes to chars. It wants a literal ESC
char. In vi, try cntl-V-ESC to embed an ESC char.
HTH!
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Danny
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