Hi all! Im hoping someone can give me some tips. I have a script that searches files based on a string query entered by the user. Works great until someone searches for a string conatining a omulate. For instance, the german word "möchten" returns nothing, even though I have a file containing the word. Ive tried switching my Locale to german.

use POSIX qw(locale_h);
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "de_DE.ISO8859-1");

then remove leading/trailing whitespace from string like always...

$containingText =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/;
$newline = $/;
$/ = undef;

but still no dice. So, Im thinking my regex isnt setup to handle foreign character classes correctly. Im new to Perl and have done alot of web searching. Havent found anything yet to help. This script is to support five languages, german, italian etc. So Ive had my admin load all the Locales on the server (AIX). Any links, snippets, or even a smack in the forehead is appreciated.

In reply to Regex help for string file search by ScottGor

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