On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:26:57 +0100
Gary Stainburn <gary.stainb...@ringways.co.uk> wrote:
> I have a text file (created by pdftotext) that I've imported into my script.
>
> It contains ASCII characters 251 for crosses and 252 for ticks. If I load
> the file in gvim and do :as
>
> it reports the characters as
>
> <u> 251, Hex 00fb, Octal 373
> <u> 252, hex 00fc, Octal 374
>
> However, when I try to seacch for it using
>
> if ($line=~/[\xfb|\xfc]/) {
>
> or even just
>
> if ($line=~/\xfb/) {
>
> it always fails. What am I doing wrong?
>
Perhaps see http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunitut.html - you may need to read the
file as binary or iso8859-1 or whatever. Also see
https://github.com/shlomif/how-to-share-code-online and read what Andy noted.
> Gary
>
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