Re: [gedit-list] Fwd: =0A=

[Adam <adammaj1 o2 pl>]

On 10.03.2013 23:32, Doug McNutt wrote:
> At 19:10 +0100 3/10/13, Adam wrote:
> > I have recevied a c code.
> > Every line has a =0A=at the end of the line.
> >
> > Does it mean that it is windows EOF char ?
> > What is the best way to remove it ?
>
> At 18:32 -0300 3/10/13, Matheus Boy wrote:
>
> > 0x0A is ASCII for LF, Line Feed, '\n'.
> > My piece of advice: don't remove those chars, try changing the encoding of the file.
> > BTW, EOF in ASCII is 0x04.
> >
> > 2013/3/10 Adam <<mailto:adammaj1 o2 pl>adammaj1 o2 pl>
>
>
> The =0A item looks a lot like "quoted printable" as a feature of email special encoding for otherwise 
> unrecognized binary items that are not printable in the current user's machine.
>
> Of course we, and likely you, don't know the sender's machine's OS.
>
> You probably need to decode the data and gedit isn't very good at that. If the file opens without gedit complaining the 
> "line" probably ends with =0A\n but it might be =0A\r\n with gedit accepting the official internet linend 
> character pair \r\n.
>
> hexdump or just hd piped to gedit using Terminal.app would show the facts.
>
> hd PathToTheFile | gedit
>
> You can probably just delete the ASCII character string "=0A" with gedit's search and replace but do try it 
> with a copy.
>
> You might be able to recover by substituting ";\n" for every semicolon if it's really a simple source code in 
> C.
Thx.

Here is a fragment of file ( maybe it will help ):

/* by ........ 2005=0A=
   all parts of this program are under the GNU GPL */=0A=
=0A=
#include <stdio.h>=0A=
#include <stdlib.h>=0A=
#include <math.h>=0A=
#include <float.h>=0A=
=0A=
#include "complex.h"=0A=
#include "zero.h"=0A=
=0A=
=0A=

another part with ; :


=0A=
    dz =3D c_div (y, y1);=0A=
=0A=

I have tried hd :


00000020  20 20 61 6c 6c 20 70 61  72 74 73 20 6f 66 20 74  |  all parts 
of t|
00000030  68 69 73 20 70 72 6f 67  72 61 6d 20 61 72 65 20  |his program 
are |
00000040  75 6e 64 65 72 20 74 68  65 20 47 4e 55 20 47 50  |under the 
GNU GP|
00000050  4c 20 2a 2f 3d 30 41 3d  0d 0a 3d 30 41 3d 0d 0a  |L 
*/=0A=..=0A=..|
00000060  23 69 6e 63 6c 75 64 65  20 3c 73 74 64 69 6f 2e  |#include 
<stdio.|
00000070  68 3e 3d 30 41 3d 0d 0a  23 69 6e 63 6c 75 64 65 
|h>=0A=..#include|
00000080  20 3c 73 74 64 6c 69 62  2e 68 3e 3d 30 41 3d 0d  | 
<stdlib.h>=0A=.|


Adam