i want to have a function which can print the printable form (possibly a 2
character string) of a character on UNIX like systems. for example, if i were to
pass the ascii value '\3', i would like it printed "^C".
there is a file called charset.c in the distribution of less
[ ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less/less-382.tar.gz] which achieves this, but it is
quite long winded and i do not wish to have to copy all the relevant code, as it
is longer than my program which requires this functionality.
i was wondering if anyone knew of a much smaller implementation. .. preferably
already in a GNU library? 8 1959
Sam Halliday wrote: i want to have a function which can print the printable form (possibly a 2 character string) of a character on UNIX like systems. for example, if i were to pass the ascii value '\3', i would like it printed "^C".
there is a file called charset.c in the distribution of less [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less/less-382.tar.gz] which achieves this, but it is quite long winded and i do not wish to have to copy all the relevant code, as it is longer than my program which requires this functionality.
i was wondering if anyone knew of a much smaller implementation. .. preferably already in a GNU library?
Using the ASCII table, there are two sets of nonprintable
characters: 0 .. 0x1F and 0x7F. Let us ignore the last one.
The set 0x00 .. 0x1F is known as control characters. Each one
has been related to pressing the CTRL key and a character,
such as 0x04 == CTRL-D. The "CTRL-" part is often replaced
with the '^' [caret] character.
So, if the value is less than 27, use ^ and a capital letter.
I believe ^@ represents 0x00. Try adding 0x40 to the value
to obtain the character part:
printf("^%c", value + 0x40);
or
printf("%c%c", '^', value + 0x40);
Note that this only applies to the ASCII chart. All other
encodings may not work.
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Sam Halliday wrote: i want to have a function which can print the printable form (possibly a 2 character string) of a character on UNIX like systems. for example, if i were to pass the ascii value '\3', i would like it printed "^C".
there is a file called charset.c in the distribution of less [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less/less-382.tar.gz] which achieves this, but it is quite long winded and i do not wish to have to copy all the relevant code, as it is longer than my program which requires this functionality.
Roll your own. Have a look at the isprint function. If isprint is true
then just print it. If not then set a rule for converting it. For example,
check is c+'A' is printable. If yes, print '^' then c+'A'.
If you are having trouble with the code post it here.
i was wondering if anyone knew of a much smaller implementation. .. preferably already in a GNU library?
Not I.
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Emmanuel Delahaye wrote: In 'comp.lang.c', Sam Halliday <em***@example. com> wrote:
i want to have a function which can print the printable form (possibly a 2 character string) of a character on UNIX like systems. for example, if i were to pass the ascii value '\3', i would like it printed "^C".
The idiomatic response to your question is:
"Do it yourself and post your ISO-C code if you are stuck."
for what its worth... heres what i ended up doing (in the context of an
example). it only works for iso-8859 character maps, but thats all i need it
for. this is handy code to check and see what graphs are in your current console
fonts.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
/* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character */
char asciicntrl[][4]={
"NUL","SOH","ST X","ETX","EOT", "ENQ","ACK","BE L","BS","HT" ,
"LF","VT","FF", "CR","SO","SI", "DLE","DC1","DC 2","DC3","DC 4",
"NAK","SYN","ET B","CAN","EM"," SUB","ESC","FS" ,"GS","RS","US" };
char isocntrl[][5]={
"PAD","HOP","BP H","NBH","IND", "NEL","SSA","ES A","HTS","HT J",
"VTS","PLD","PL U","RI","SS2"," SS3","DCS","PU1 ","PU2","ST S",
"CCH","MW","SPA ","EPA","SOS"," SGCI","SCI","CS I","ST","OSC"," PM","APC"};
void printablechar(c har c);
main()
{
char i,n;
for (i=0,n=1;i<255; i++,n++){
printf("%d\t",i );
printablechar(i );
printf("\t");
if(7==n){
printf("\n");
n=0;
}
}
printf("\n");
return 0;
}
void printablechar(c har c)
{
/* ASCII control sequences */
if (127==c)
printf("DEL");
else if (32>c)
printf("%s",asc iicntrl[c]);
/* ISO-8859 control sequences */
else if ((127<c)&&(160> c))
printf("%s",iso cntrl[c-128]);
/* printable characters */
else
printf("%c",c);
}
Sam Halliday wrote: for what its worth... heres what i ended up doing (in the context of an example). it only works for iso-8859 character maps, but thats all i need it for. this is handy code to check and see what graphs are in your current console fonts.
well... seems i broke x86 with that. for completeness here is the version you
should use, if you are interested:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
/* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character */
char asciicntrl[32][4] =
{ "NUL", "SOH", "STX", "ETX", "EOT", "ENQ", "ACK", "BEL", "BS", "HT",
"LF", "VT", "FF", "CR", "SO", "SI", "DLE", "DC1", "DC2", "DC3", "DC4",
"NAK", "SYN", "ETB", "CAN", "EM", "SUB", "ESC", "FS", "GS", "RS", "US"
};
char isocntrl[32][5] =
{ "PAD", "HOP", "BPH", "NBH", "IND", "NEL", "SSA", "ESA", "HTS", "HTJ",
"VTS", "PLD", "PLU", "RI", "SS2", "SS3", "DCS", "PU1", "PU2", "STS",
"CCH", "MW", "SPA", "EPA", "SOS", "SGCI", "SCI", "CSI", "ST", "OSC", "PM",
"APC"
};
void printablechar (unsigned char c);
int
main ()
{
int i, n;
for (i = 0, n = 1; i < 256; i++, n++)
{
printf ("%d\t", (unsigned char) i);
printablechar ((unsigned char) i);
printf ("\t");
if (7 == n)
{
printf ("\n");
n = 0;
}
}
printf ("\n");
return 0;
}
void
printablechar (unsigned char c)
{
/* ASCII control sequences */
if (127 == c)
printf ("DEL");
else if (32 > c)
printf ("%s", asciicntrl[(int) c]);
/* ISO-8859 control sequences */
else if ((127 < c) && (160 > c))
printf ("%s", isocntrl[(int) (c - 128)]);
/* printable characters */
else
printf ("%c", c);
}
Emmanuel Delahaye wrote: printf ("%d\t", (unsigned char) i); "%d" expects an int. The cast is useless.
yeah, wasn't thinkin right
Sounds to be correct but not portable C, and to do the job. What was your question again ?
i basically wanted to know if a (standard) function existed that does what my
printablechar() does. mine is limited to iso-8859 charsets, a standard function
would supposedly support all charsets.
In 'comp.lang.c', Sam Halliday <em***@example. com> wrote: Emmanuel Delahaye wrote: > printf ("%d\t", (unsigned char) i); "%d" expects an int. The cast is useless.
yeah, wasn't thinkin right
Sounds to be correct but not portable C, and to do the job. What was your question again ?
i basically wanted to know if a (standard) function existed that does what my printablechar() does. mine is limited to iso-8859 charsets, a standard function would supposedly support all charsets.
No. There is not such a function. If there was one, I guess it would
only support the charset of the implementation.
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