On Mar 2, 2005, at 5:53 PM, Linda W wrote:
I'm not sure what perl does with invalid character data in a variable when you try to manipulate it by appending it to another value.
There's no such thing as invalid character data in Perl strings. Perl strings can contain arbitrary binary data.
Sure, in the "C" locale.
Outside of that, all bets are off. You could quite easily have arbitrary binary data in a Perl scalar that isn't valid character data in UTF-8, for instance.
Sam.
