pcre2grep cannot work for UTF

BudiKusasi · 09-28-2021, 09:15 AM

How come pcre2grep cannot work for UTF-16LE data format

Code:

$ cat  standard.bjt |pcre2grep  mode
$

Please expert guide it to solution

pan64 · 09-28-2021, 09:22 AM

did you check the man page of that tool? https://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2unicode.html

shruggy · 09-28-2021, 12:10 PM

Are you really searching for the string mode? Because it doesn't contain any non-ASCII characters. Just convert the file from UTF-16LE to your locale encoding with iconv/recode/whatever. Or search it with the strings command as binary data.

BTW, what does the .bjt extension mean? Quick search revealed only this and this which is in LTspice Bipolar Design Data Format (for integrated circuit design). It is categorized as a CAD/CAM/CAE format, and AFAICT non-ASCII data in it can possibly be found only in comments.