I am writing a script to convert source code. I want to convert lines containing things like "anStr" into {(byte)'a',(byte)'n',(byte)'S',(byte)'t',(byte)'r',}, and I came up with the following:


#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use diagnostics;



sub jc {

  my ($c_str) = shift;

  my $j_str  = "";

  foreach (split //, $c_str) {

    $j_str = $j_str . "(byte)\'$_\',";

  }

  return $j_str;

}



while (<>) {

  s/\"(.+)\"/"{".&jc($1)."}"/e;

  print;

}

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This works (except for an extra comma at the end). Is there a better way to do this?

In reply to C to Java string conversion script by perlmoth

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