Re: Removing VT220 control characters with GAWK

[Chuck Swiger]

On Apr 17, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Dylan VanHerpen wrote:
> Where 'xx;xx' represents the row/column. What I'd like to do is
> something like this:
>
>         { FS = "\033\[*H"; OFS = "," }
>
> So far, I've had no luck removing the escape strings, or even just the
> escape code (\033) itself. Am I going the wrong way about this?


Try using sed instead.  Something like:

  sed 's/\033\[[0-9]*\;[0-9]*H/ /g' < capturefile

...might do.

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-Chuck