use Perl

• Solution (Score:2)

  by malte (1708)

  Alt-Gr (German Layout) + 7 is the vertical line. Alt-Gr + Space is that character. ||Boom!
  • Re:Solution (Score:2)

    by jonasbn (1153)

    On my Powerbook with danish keyboard the | is located on i and is activated using it in combination with alt. So it is simply because of speedy typing and unfortunately it does not show up in the editor.
    
    thanks for the response pin-pointing the problem :)
    
    Now I will look into a solution/workaround to the problem.
    • Re:Solution (Score:2)

      by nicholas (3034)

      use emacs? :-)

      (Or is emacs just a solution still searching for its problem?)
      • Re:Solution (Score:2)

        by jonasbn (1153) <reversethis-{gro.napc} {ta} {nbsanoj}> on 2004.02.11 3:44 (#28313) Homepage Journal

        Apparantly BBEdit has a flag where you can indicate so you can see 'invisible' characters.
        
        Invisible characters in a text editor?
        
        This seems to do the job, the only problem now is that have indicators of tabs and newlines aswell (looks like an old version of Wordperfect).
        
        But I'll survive

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        • Re:Solution (Score:1)

          by warming (3781)

          perl -pi -e 's/\xCA//g' filename

          Usually does the trick. :)