>>>>> "Leon" == Leon Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > MS Access has a habit of converting 3 dots "..." into a single character > representing the 3 dots. When I look at a text file containing this > character in Hex mode, it has a value of 85. How do I do a pattern match for > this character based on its hex value, so I can replace it with 3 periods? > At the moment I am resorting to pasting it into the perl program like so... > (which works but is not ideal) > $text =~ s/paste weird char here/.../g; In general, you can represent any hex character as "\xnn", so you might try: $text =~ s/\x85/.../g; Sarir _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/activeperl
