On Feb 3, 2008 12:07 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Feb 2, 11:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I have a program with a line like
> >
> > > while (<FILE>) {
> > > if (/stuff/i) {
> > > print;
> > > }
> > > }
> >
> > > When I run the program, and I replace "stuff" with only one character,
> > > like "d", it works exactly as I expect. But if instead of using "d", I
> > > use "da" or "date" (which I know are in FILE, because it's a text file
> > > I made) nothing prints on the screen. I've also tried to have it print
> > > to another file, and that's turned out blank too.
> >
> > > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > My guess would be that you are creating a UTF-16LE text file on Windows
> > and trying to read it on your Mac?
> >
> > John
> > --
> > Perl isn't a toolbox, but a small machine shop where you
> > can special-order certain sorts of tools at low cost and
> > in short order. -- Larry Wall
>
> John,
>
> I am using a Mac. I don't know what kind of Text file it is, because
> it's being created by Automator as a scrape of a website. If the
> encoding is the problem, how do I work that?
>
> Yes, I realize that the problem I'm describing is really weird and the
> code I posted should work perfectly. So it's probably not my coding
> but something to do with the system I'm on (OS X 10.4.11) or the file
> I'm working with (a .txt).
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Eextensions don't matter in UNIX (and OS X is a UNIX). Step one to
determining what a file contains is running the file command against
it like this:
file foo.txt
This will give you a better idea what you are working with. The next
step is looking at header of the HTML, it will probably tell you
exactly what encoding is being used. It should look something like
this:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
In that case the file is encoded with UTF-8.
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