On Oct 30, Stephen LeClaire said: >What I was looking for, but not properly describing, was a way to fill >an array with non-word characters - much like "@array = ( 'a' .. 'b' >);" would be used to fill with lowercase characters.
The simplest way I can think of is: @non_words = grep /\W/, map chr, 0 .. 255; That builds a list of the numbers 0 through 255, turns them into the characters they represent, and then checks to see if they match the non-word regex. If you want PRINTABLE non-words characters, then you probably want: @non_words = grep /\W/, map chr, 33 .. 126; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
