You can use hexdump to find out. -Steve Donovan Niesen wrote: > Anybody know what the ^@ character is in a text file when I view it > using cat -A? I have a dumb Windows program that is creating a text > file and using these characters as whitespace. I'm trying to write a > Python script to strip them out but I don't know what the heck they are. > > > -- > Donovan Niesen > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list