I am trying to use perl on the command line to process text files in various ways, one of which is to decode html entities. As far as I can see, the following line should work
perl -MHTML::Entities -p -e 'decode_entities($_)' <input.txt >output.txt it does indeed change the html entities, but not into the required characters, rather into pairs of unusual characters; and the command line returns this: Wide character in print, <> line 1. It seems to me it is something to do with internal character encoding being messed up but I can't work out how to control it. The text files processed have MacOS character encoding which is required in the finished file, but perhaps I need to convert to UTF8 before processing and back again after? (I am seriously new to this - only started looking at Perl yesterday!) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
