Thank you for the explaination.

I think I'm able to get my script recognize the non-ascii characters out of the pieces of data.

However when I'm trying to remove/replace the non-ascii characters using the regex, it result still shows some unexpected characters （wrapped in point brackets) left in the position. Examples like following:

 25             $line =~ s/[^:ascii]//g;

 26             print $out_hdl "$line";

Result:

11AM<A0> LONDON

Dep<F3>sito Centralizado

This seems not like what I saw from the various examples on internet.

So, do you have ideas what's left there, and how could it be fully removed by this kind of regex?

 

Thanks

In reply to Re^4: What's the 'M-' characters and how to filter/correct them? by sylph001
in thread What's the 'M-' characters and how to filter/correct them? by sylph001

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