The Missing Character in the log file

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Imported from previous forum

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I am currently working on translating log file into readable English. However, a character that separates one piece of information from another keeps eluding me. In Solaris this character is represented by ^A(Ctrl-A), in Windows it is represented either by filled or empty recktangle. It is present when viewing file through emacs or TextPad, but it is missing when the string where it appears is either examined or printed out in Java. Can anyone tell me what this character really is and how can one find it in Java?

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It is the FIX field delimiter character. This is the ASCII “SOH” character. It has an ASCII decimal value of 1. In Java you would represent this as ‘\001’, I believe.

> I am currently working on translating log file into readable English. However, a character that separates one piece of information from another keeps eluding me. In Solaris this character is represented by ^A(Ctrl-A), in Windows it is represented either by filled or empty recktangle. It is present when viewing file through emacs or TextPad, but it is missing when the string where it appears is either examined or printed out in Java. Can anyone tell me what this character really is and how can one find it in Java?
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