Hello IanD, and welcome to the Monastery!

Try this:

14:33 >perl -wE "my $s = 'Australia’s ‘Powder Capital’'; $s =~ tr/‘’/'
+/; say $s;"
Australia's 'Powder Capital'

14:33 >

[download]

See tr{}{} in Quote and Quote like Operators.

Update: Likewise,

14:42 >perl -wE "my $t = 'and ... xxx said “This is a fantastic start 
+to the season”'; $t =~ tr/“”/\"/; say $t;"
and ... xxx said "This is a fantastic start to the season"

14:43 >

[download]

Or combined into one:

14:46 >perl -wE "my $s = qq[Australia’s ‘Powder Capital’\nand ... xxx 
+said “This is a fantastic start to the season”]; $s =~ tr/‘’“”/''\"\"
+/; say $s;"
Australia's 'Powder Capital'
and ... xxx said "This is a fantastic start to the season"

14:49 >

[download]

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: Replacing non ascii in string by Athanasius
in thread Replacing non ascii in string by IanD

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