binutils "strings" like functionality?

[cjl]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> something like this could work:
>
>     import re
>
>     text = open(file, "rb").read()
>
>     for m in re.finditer("([\x20-\x7f]{4,})[\n\0]", text):
>         print m.start(), repr(m.group(1))


Hey...that worked. I actually modified:

for m in re.finditer("([\x20-\x7f]{4,})[\n\0]", text):

to

for m in re.finditer("([\x20-\x7f]{4,})", text):

and now the output is nearly identical to 'strings'. One problem
exists, in that if the binary file contains a string
"monkey/chicken/dog/cat" it is printed as "mokey//chicken//dog//cat",
and I don't know enough to figure out where the extra "/" is coming
from.

Help?

-CJL