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how to handle illegal characters when reading a file

I've got a problem when I read in a file, I use gets(nextline inputfile) but one of the lines that I read contain the following

"netname '«USB_WR«'"

So I will get an error when reading this line and cannot continue any work and extract the USB_WR part that interests me

Do you see any way around this? Using lineread does not change this

Best regards

Ole

Randy R over 13 years ago

You could try something like this:
in_char = symbolToString(getc(in_port)) ; to import one character at a time
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Ejlersen over 13 years ago

Hi Randy
Thanks for the suggestion, I did notice this as an option but my problem is that the file I'm passing is more than 40k lines and the end program will need to be able to pass even bigger files.
So I'm a bit concerned about performance, even with gets/lineread it takes a good amount of time to read and process the file.
It would be good to be able to readin the line and then handle the data before getting an error. I'm not applying anything to the database so far, I would understand the message if I was trying to create a net or something using illegal characters.
Again, thanks for the tip.
Best regards
Ole
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Randy R over 13 years ago

One other method; pre-parse the file to remove the illegal characters; possibly using a text editor, a PERL program, etc...
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aCraig over 13 years ago

Hi Ole,
Have you tried saving the file as UTF-8 or running it through a UTF-8 decoder?
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Ejlersen over 13 years ago

Hi
I'll have to look into this, thanks very much for the suggestion.
Best regards
Ole
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