Its OK -- I have it figgered out now
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 7:09 PM Eric Hawicz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 1/17/2021 6:21 PM, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > HEY Johnny, that thing with tr -d did not work. When I read the > > manpage I got and idea: > > character classes (in this case [:cntrl;]). It turns out that one can do > > > > s/[[:cntrl]]/\n/g > > > > using PERL. That fixed the prob with \x{d}. I still need to fix \x{92} > > , \x{93}, etc > > > > It would be nice to do: system(tr -d .... $text). Then write the > > result to filehandle. > > Where do you get the octal vals for \x{92} , \x{93} , etc ? > > If you're already doing stuff in perl, it's pointless to run anything > external. Just include \x92, \x93, etc... in a regex, just like you're > doing for control characters. i.e. $text =~ s/[\x92\x93]//g; or > whatever replacement you actually want to do. > > > Eric
