Re^4: Converting a passage of Spanish into hyphens and spaces

I've just tried the Unicode one again and this time I got it to work. I don't know what I did differently in terms of my typing in your code plus the file name.

Recuerdo igual que si fuera hoy el día que llegué. Había hecho el viaje en tren con otros cinco compañeros novatos, y al bajar en la estación fuimos al hotel Condal, donde habíamos reservado habitaciones.

-------- ----- --- -- ----- --- -- -í- --- -----é. ---í- ----- -- ----- -- ---- --- ----- ----- -----ñ---- -------, - -- ----- -- -- ------ó- ------ -- ----- ------, ----- ---í---- --------- ------------.

As you can see there's still the letters with accents but if that can't be changed no worries and thank you very much for what you've done.

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Re^5: Converting a passage of Spanish into hyphens and spaces by shmem (Chancellor) on Sep 13, 2015 at 15:23 UTC
As you can see there's still the letters with accents Extend your character class to have these translated, too: `[[:alpha:]áéíóúñü]` [download] perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Converting a passage of Spanish into hyphens and spaces by UKhombre (Initiate) on Sep 13, 2015 at 19:32 UTC
Thanks. Perl is great and I didn't know anything about it before yesterday.	[reply]
Re^5: Converting a passage of Spanish into hyphens and spaces by hippo (Archbishop) on Sep 13, 2015 at 15:28 UTC
If the encoding is utf-8 rather than iso8859-1 then you can use the `XPosixAlpha` class like this: `$ echo habíamos reservado habitaciones. \| perl -CIO -pe 's/\p{XPosixAl +pha}/-/g;' -------- --------- ------------.` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Converting a passage of Spanish into hyphens and spaces by UKhombre (Initiate) on Sep 13, 2015 at 19:28 UTC
Cheers I will look into that.	[reply]