I'm trying to find the ranges that can be used in a regex for certain extended ascii characters.
This is a script using Perl 5.8.0 under mod_perl 1.28 and apache 1.3.28 (linux).

According to: http://www.asciitable.com/ I want the following ranges: 128-151 and 160-165.

According to: http://natali.mine.nu/test2.html, they are \x80-x97 and \xa0-\xa5

My regex is:

$param =~ s/[^a-zA-Z0-9\.\-\=\+\!\@\#\$\%\^\&\*\?\ \x80-\x97\xa0-\xa5] +//g;

Well, anything I put in one of the ranges gets ripped out. They should stay, along with a-z stuff.

Please help.


In reply to extended ASCII regex range by theirpuppet

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