Unicode handling in Perl is a bit complex. Read the "perlunicode" manpage to get some ideas.
Jochen On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 05:56:28PM +0100, Gary68 wrote: > Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:56:28 +0100 > From: Gary68 <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] perl and special utf-8 characters > > > 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 -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
