Date:         Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:02:40 -0600
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Subject:      Re: Regular expression for compress() c modifier?
Comments: To: Ben Powell <ben.powell@cla.co.uk>
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Are you not able to print the value using $HEX format.

On 12/18/08, Ben Powell <ben.powell@cla.co.uk> wrote:
> Calling all regular expressionists...
>
> I've come across the compress() modifiers that enable you to filter out odd
> characters. The variety I had printed as rectangles but were not tabs. Using
> the compress() modifier of c cleans them out. What would the prx method of
> this be, keeping all alphanumeric characters and punctuation in the string?
>
> All comments much appreciated (I still don't know what the odd character was)
>
> Rgds
>