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Removing "NUL" characters

I have got characters like that in my notepad++

npp screenshot of NULs

When i am trying to copy whole line, i am actually copying everything until "NUL":

File:1 

What i want to do, is replace those null, to be nothing, so i can copy my whole line. Maybe there is any keyword that will tell notepad++(or any other program that might help) to replace those characters? When i am selecting it, use Right Click and then "clear", its gone - but i dont want to do it one by one.

I don't care about removing the cause of this problem, just the effect(NULs)

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user2618929 Avatar asked Oct 12 '13 10:10

user2618929


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1 Answers

This might help, I used to fi my files like this: http://security102.blogspot.ru/2010/04/findreplace-of-nul-objects-in-notepad.html

Basically you need to replace \x00 characters with regular expressions

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Aleksandr Shumilov Avatar answered Sep 23 '22 15:09

Aleksandr Shumilov