Re: Finding if a line contains Hebrew characters in perl

2013-04-25 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:05 PM, ik wrote: > try this > > #!/usr/bin/env perl -w > # > > use v5.14; > use utf8; > > my $text = 'שלוabv'; > > if ($text =~ /^[\x{5D0}-\x{5ea}]{3}/) { > say "yes"; > } else { > say "no"; > } I'd probably use \p{IsHebrew} or \p{InHebrew} instead of the hexa cod

Re: OT: mailbox generator

2013-04-25 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Daniel Shahaf wrote on Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 22:36:31 +0300: > Tangentially related, I couldn't give my password if I wanted to: I'm > a touch-typist, so I have my password wired in muscle memory, but > I never memorized the string value, so I wouldn't be able to give that > verbally or write it on

Re: OT: mailbox generator

2013-04-25 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Tangentially related, I couldn't give my password if I wanted to: I'm a touch-typist, so I have my password wired in muscle memory, but I never memorized the string value, so I wouldn't be able to give that verbally or write it on paper --- I can only recover it by using a qwerty keyboard. I'm not

Re: OT: mailbox generator

2013-04-25 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On 04/25/2013 04:23 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Off topic, but may be interesting: I'll re-order the quoted excerpts to put the technical/on-topic part of the response first. The non-technical/off-topic considerations may be skipped, unless you are inerested in my opinions. > Any existing so

Re: Finding if a line contains Hebrew characters in perl

2013-04-25 Thread ik
try this #!/usr/bin/env perl -w # use v5.14; use utf8; my $text = 'שלוabv'; if ($text =~ /^[\x{5D0}-\x{5ea}]{3}/) { say "yes"; } else { say "no"; } On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Ori Idan wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:21 PM, ik wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:17

Re: Finding if a line contains Hebrew characters in perl

2013-04-25 Thread ik
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Ori Idan wrote: > I have a script in perl where I read lines from a UTF-8 text file. > I have to find out if a line contains at least 3 letters in Hebrew. > > How can this be done in perl? > What is your Perl version ? > > -- > Ori Idan > > > __

Finding if a line contains Hebrew characters in perl

2013-04-25 Thread Ori Idan
I have a script in perl where I read lines from a UTF-8 text file. I have to find out if a line contains at least 3 letters in Hebrew. How can this be done in perl? -- Ori Idan ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.

Re: OT: mailbox generator

2013-04-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 04/25/2013 04:23 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Off topic, but may be interesting: > > I heard recently that it is now legal for the security checks in the Ben > Gurion airport to require that I show my mail account. > > Any existing software to automatically (and periodically) generate email > on a

Re: OT: mailbox generator

2013-04-25 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Not just here, also in the US, and Europe they can search computer/storage devices without a warrant when passing the border 2013/4/25 E.S. Rosenberg : > Not just here, also in the US, and Europe they can search > computer/storage devices without a warrant when passing the border > > 2013/

OT: mailbox generator

2013-04-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Off topic, but may be interesting: I heard recently that it is now legal for the security checks in the Ben Gurion airport to require that I show my mail account. Any existing software to automatically (and periodically) generate email on a mailbox which will appear to be used, so if anybody want