DoorMud has a Player Rankings "rank.lst"

there's some ugly unwanted characters (not players =p ) in it. is there a linux cli filter that will remove high-end ascii?

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Hi Johnny,

On 2022-05-28 20:07:52, you wrote to All:

DoorMud has a Player Rankings "rank.lst"

there's some ugly unwanted characters (not players =p ) in it. is there a linux cli filter that will remove high-end ascii?

Sure. Somthing like:

cat in.txt | tr -d '\200-\377' >out.txt


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On 29 May 2022, Wilfred van Velzen said the following...

there's some ugly unwanted characters (not players =p ) in it. is the linux cli filter that will remove high-end ascii?

Sure. Somthing like:

cat in.txt | tr -d '\200-\377' >out.txt

thanks. it didn't work but it's defitely pointed me in the right direction.

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DoorMud has a Player Rankings "rank.lst"

there's some ugly unwanted characters (not players =p ) in it. is there
a linux cli filter that will remove high-end ascii?

While working on a mod for Mystic recently I used the "unidecode" module for Python to do something just like this. It'll take unicode characters and replace them with a close cp437 character. Even with little or no Python knowledge this should be reasonably simple.

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