Is it possible that sed on the HP is treating the first \x at all?
Then your expression would be replacing the characters: "\" , "x" ,"7", the
range "F-\xFE with "*".
It seems to be replacing all letters above "E" and the number "7".
Bruce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Barnes" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 1:41 PM
Subject: [HP3000-L] SED Usage
> Hi -L Gang,
>
> I have a user who is trying to use SED to do some data manipulation and is
> not getting the desired results.
>
> The issue is incoming data from another platform that is being fed into
> MM3000. This data occasionally has some unprintable characters, which of
> course wrecks havoc on the MM application when it is encountered.
>
> To address this, the user, using a cygwin (unix like) environment on their
> windows pc, developed a SED script that when they test in the cgywin
> environment, works just fine, but when done on the target HP3000 (7.0 pp2)
> gets an undesirable result.
>
> The script below is meant to scan and substitute based on what you see
> below:
>
> sed -e 's/[\x7F-\xFE]/*/g' < COMSHD > COMSHD1 works on cygwin
>
> Unfortunately, while meant to catch the ascii table entry for the Delete
> Character and then subsequent unprintable characters after that (hex 7F
> thru hex FE), is in fact catching more than desired. Below is an example
> of what is being changed that was not intended:
>
> SI28772 JACT1001 3M TECHNOLOGIES (S) PTE LTD.
> to
> **28**2 *AC*1001 3* **C********* (*) *** **D.
>
> The user thought that because MPE/iX is POSIX compliant, that this shoudl
> work.
>
> Clearly not my forte here ;-)......
>
> Could someone steer me in the proper direction ?
>
> Thanks!
> Dan Barnes
>
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