If you know which column they are in, then Suprtool can find specific characters:

  >define  myfield,31,1
  >if      myfield = ^13        {ascii 13 = carriage return}

Otherwise you can use Qedit to find these records (if the fields in DATAFILE are not all ASCII, use Set Left and Set Right to isolate the ASCII portion):

  /set decimal on
  /list datafile '13           {'13 = carriage return }

But this customer didn't have Qedit (yet...) so we found the following Posix shell solution which finds any lines in the file called DATAFILE that have non-printable characters.

  :run sh.hpbin.sys;info="-L"
  shell/iX> grep "[[:cntrl:]]" DATAFILE

We took this approach because the expected regular expression for carriage returns: grep "\r" DATAFILE did not work.

Any ideas or other methods? Send your suggestions to Paul Gobes at Robelle.

Paul.Gobes@robelle.com
January 18, 2001