Re: Win32::TieRegistry or Perl problem (?)]
Ken Williams wrote: 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.
Re: Win32::TieRegistry or Perl problem (?)]
On Mar 7, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Sam Vilain wrote: Ken Williams wrote: 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. Oh, I see. Right. -Ken
Re: Win32::TieRegistry or Perl problem (?)]
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:40:30AM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: Ken Williams wrote: 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. ..but that has nothing to do with how perl operates on scalars. Perl will gladly append anything to anything. Whether or not that pops out correctly or not in your favorite encoding has no effect on the perl behavior. That was the gist of the original question, as I read it. If you are using some sort of encoding module you should check the documentation for the module to see what it does with invalid data, as there is no such thing natively. Austin
Re: Win32::TieRegistry or Perl problem (?)]
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. -Ken
