On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mike Flannigan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Mike Flannigan wrote:
>>
>> I want to change character code 160 to character
>> code 32 throughout a bunch of text files. I'm using
>> this right now
>> s/(.)/ord($1) == '160' ? chr(32) : $1 /eg;
>> and it works, but I don't like it much. If anybody
>> has another way they like better, I'd appreciate
>> seeing it. It does not have to be a reg exp.
>>
>> Anybody know why this doesn't work?
>> tr/\160/\32/d;
>> Oddly it replaces 'p' (character code 80) with
>> character code 26???
>
>
> This works:
>
> tr/\xA0/\x20/
>
> Apparently that is hexidecimal notation.
>
>
> Mike
Mike, I ran across this as a more broad solution in my code. It
leverages the POSIX printable character set.
The below will replace all non-printable characters with "."
s/\P{IsPrint}/./g;
Todd
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