Hello Monastery,

Think this post would be helpful to anyone looking to strip extended ascii characters / unicode out of their pesky strings to expose the correct data for manipulation elsewhere in their code.

Would appreciate a little help with regex match on non-printable / extended ascii characters proliferated throughout my dirty little strings. I've these nasty little characters https://unicodelookup.com/#▼/1 in my strings and need to parse them out, but would like the solution to match any non-alpha numeric, not just ▼ characters if possible

I.E. Something like this

FYI, this is the $string below, when you put it in code blocks it shows up wrong

my $string ="Group: Group Name▼▼Role: Role Name"


my $string ="Group: Group Name▼▼Role: Role Name"
$string =~ m/(.*)Group|Role\:\s+(.*)\s+|[^!-~\s]+(.*)$/;
print "\n\nTHIS IS THE GROUP/ROLE NAME!!!!:" . $2 . "!!!!\n\n";

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gives me an incorrect result of:


THIS IS THE GROUP/ROLE NAME!!!!:Group Name▼▼Role:!!!!



The unicode characters are in the strings as the upsidown triangle

Thanks,
- 3dbc

In reply to regex match unicode characters in ascii string by 3dbc

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