show possible non-printing characters

[jawon]

I have a flat file and am trying to figure out if it is delimited with any non-printing characters (like tabs). In vi, I just see blanks between the fields, so is there a way to show ALL characters to determine the delimiter?

 

[vgersh99]

man od

vlad
+----------------------------+
| #include<disclaimer.h> |
+----------------------------+

 

[PHV]

To see all specials characters in vi, do this:
:set list

Hope This Help, PH.
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