I wrote:
> If you're interested only in golf, and don't care about those
> issues, you can eliminate several bytes easily:
>
> $str=~s/[^ -~]/sprintf'\%03o',ord$&/ge;
If hexadecimal escape codes are acceptable in place of octal,
you can save another 3 bytes:
$str=~s/[^ -~]/'\x'.unpack H2,$&/ge;
Save 4 more bytes by using \c escapes, but that doesn't handle
anything above 127, and I doubt PostgreSQL would like it
anyway:
$str=~s/[^ -~]/'\c'.($&^'@')/ge;
--
Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Washington, DC
