AIX/Unix convert characters

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October 12, 2015 at 11:07 pm #54848

Tom Canavan
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I have an interface file that appears to be sending a character outside the range of acceptable Unix characters. They are sending a hex A6, “
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- October 13, 2015 at 12:26 pm #83204
  
  Charlie Bursell
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  Try string map in Tcl
- October 13, 2015 at 7:56 pm #83205
  
  Russ Ross
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  I found a couple of working scripts on my AIX box that used tr command.
  
  What I noticed is that tr appears to use octal numbers instead of hex or deciamal.
  
  Since hex A6 is octal 246, I got this to work using tr for my test.
  
  Code: cat myFile | tr ‘246’ “|”
  
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- October 13, 2015 at 8:17 pm #83206
  
  Tom Canavan
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  Russ, you’re a lifesaver. I wasn’t using the octal value when I used tr. That works.
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