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in thread Any good ways to handle NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE characters in regex in newer versions of Perl?

I'm not sure what I have. The file definitely has an invisible character in it. When I copy and paste the file name:

Works: 

perl -wMstrict -lE "qq/Screenshot-2024-02-23-at-1.05.14 AM.png/ =~ /A/
+ and say 'OK' or die"

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Doesn't work: 

perl -wMstrict -lE "qq/Screenshot-2024-02-23-at-1.05.14 AM.png/ =~ /\s
+/ and say 'OK' or die"

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The character between the "4" and "A" is the invisible character.

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Re^3: Any good ways to handle NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE characters in regex in newer versions of Perl?
by haukex (Archbishop) on Aug 13, 2024 at 16:02 UTC

    I would strongly recommend not using the command line, as it can have its own encoding issues, instead put everything in a script; if it contains non-ASCII characters, make sure to save it as UTF-8 and use utf8;.

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Re^3: Any good ways to handle NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE characters in regex in newer versions of Perl?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 13, 2024 at 16:06 UTC
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