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Re: Stripping funny charactersby extremely (Priest) |
on Dec 12, 2000 at 06:03 UTC ( [id://46202]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
As I recall, the smartquotes are: \x91-\x94.
you should be able to do
$text=~tr/\x91-\x94/''""/; and clean it up nicely;
If they get pasted to "‘" or such html nasties you'll
need a different approach, of course.
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