Re: hidden characters in source code causing compiler grief

On Apr 9, 5:56 pm, vlsidesign <ford...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 8, 6:00 pm, luserXtrog <mijo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Apr 8, 7:27 pm, vlsidesign <ford...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 8, 4:53 pm, luserXtrog <mijo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 8, 6:25 pm, vlsidesign <ford...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

man iso_8859-1 identifies \240 as
NO-BREAK SPACE
and \302 as
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX

It seems likely that the file passed through the grubby hands of a
word processor. If one must be used, it may be found useful to select
a very primitive "terminal" font. This may help by making non-ASCII
character stick out like a sore thumb.

For that matter, they should stick out in vi. For me, \302 looks like
a lowercase y with 2 dots, and \240 looks like a Russian cursive d.

I don't see either of these on the corresponding snippet. Was it
pasted or retyped?

shell$ more prime.c    //I more prime.c and then I copy and paste to
below

Right on! I take it back. But do they show in vi? You should
be able to substitute them away :%s/^V302//g  :%s/^V240//g
(where ^V is ctrl-V, of course:).

--
laxdroog

I used this command from poster (thanks)
env LANG=C vi filename.c

and now it looks like this:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
int| main(void)
{
| | int| | | | number;
| | int| | | | d;
| | _Bool| | isPrime;| //| set| to| 0| if| number| is| non­prime
| | int| maxNum;
<snip>

I tried both your substitutions but they didn't work. I also tried the
pipe character and it doesn't work. I tried in vi mode, and env LANG=c
vi mode as well.

I at a loss to fathom what is going on here.
I cannot imagine whence the pipe (| vertical bar character) entered
either the file in question or the conversation as I have followed it.

Have you tried ed? Surely it's still limited to ascii by default?!

I was able to remove the bars from the snippet by pasting into vi (in
insert mode) and typing :%s/|//g

I do not intend the following question to be offensive, merely
desperate: did you happen to type the bar between the second and third
slash (/ forward slanting bar character)?

Violently scratching scalp...

--
leeeeeeeeeeeeeeext
.

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