i wouldn't know how to do it with regexes. ok. let's put it this way. i have a POSITIVE list of allowed chars (inkl. utf8 2byte ones) and i have a string.
i want to eliminate all chars in the string that are not in the POSITIVE list. any idea? gerhard On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 17:33 +0100, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2011/3/11 Gary68 <[email protected]>: > > i want to find out if certain characters (german umlaute) are contained > > in a string that i work char by char. > > > Hi Gerhard, > > I am almost totally ignorant in programming but I guess that if you > don't need the parsing character by character for another operation > there will already be a general solution for this problem in perl > (which might be faster). Recently I did something similar in Postgres > and by reading the manual I found a function called "regex replace" > (or similar). I suggest you search your docu for this term (or search > for "regular expression") and I am 99% sure you will get the answer. > > cheers, > Martin _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
