Hi CM! On Thursday 26 Nov 2009 18:42:30 CM wrote: > > It's "Shlomi" (English spelling) - not "Schlomi" (German Spelling). Many > > people make this mistake. > > My apologies. > > > What does "cat /etc/debian_version" say? > > 4.0 > > > > I hit on an idea that each text file coming from different sources will > > > have the Unicode UTF8 hex string of all the special characters. > > > See here.http://lwp.interglacial.com/appf_01.htm > > > > > > For example the Danish A-ring ( A with a ring on top ) in the text file > > > will be written as : 0xc30x85. This was found to be acceptable by all > > > parties. > > > > > > Now the question is, I will have a text file with lots of English > > > > You can use regexes to match specific characters. But generally your > > converter (e.g: of > > ahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language) wil ldo that > > for you. Do you need to guess the language of the document? I still don't > > understand exactly what you want to do. > > Lets say a line contains this text in a file. > > "This is a line of text containing 0xc30x86n exotic character". > > How can I read this line from a file and evaluate this on the fly to: > > "This is a line of text containing AEn exotic character".( AE here is > the fused AE in Danish) >
If I understand you correctly, then you can use the chr() built-in function: http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/chr.html Possibly with some regular expressions' patterns match. Regards, Shlomi Fish > > Hope this explanation was clear! > Chandra > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/ Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
