Re: funny character

Well, it cannot be ASCII 0357, and there are only 128 (0200) code points defined in ASCII....

What you want is a simple replace:

    s/\0357/&bull;/g
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(Or whatever entity you want).

Abigail

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Re^2: funny character by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jun 06, 2002 at 19:35 UTC
The character he is talking about is character value 239. That is 0357 in octal notation. Update: changed "ASCII". Good catch, belg4mit. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: funny character by belg4mit (Prior) on Jun 06, 2002 at 21:51 UTC
Errm, that wasn't Abigail-II's point exactly (octal vs. decimal). ASCII only defines 0-127, 128-255 are 8th bit and non-standard (in as much as sometimes random countries did random things. Heck, Germany even mucked about with []\{}\|~). The char in question is probably from ISO-8859-1. More on character sets. `-- perl -pew "s/\b;([mnst])/'$1/g"`	[reply]
Re: Re: funny character by alien_life_form (Pilgrim) on Jun 06, 2002 at 17:35 UTC
Greetings, Looks you did not test... `c:\temp>perl -e"s/\357/<li>/g&&print $_ while(<>)" funny.txt <li><li><li> c:\temp>perl -e"s/\0357/<li>/g&&print $_ while(<>)" funny.txt c:\temp>` [download] funny.txt contains 3 samples of the offending character. Cheers, alf You can't have everything: where would you put it?	[reply] [d/l]