Hi, I'm stumped by this problem - I hope someone can help me.

I'm replacing "bad" characters in HTML files.

An example of the sort of characters that I'm replacing is:

Ÿ (Not sure how that will come out - it appears as a square box in my source file but appears to get converted to Ÿ on here)

I've got it in my code as:

from => qq{Ÿ},
to   => q{Ÿ},

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However, I'd really like to be able to produce the from "string" programatically, i.e. represent it using pure ascii character.

I've hex-dumped the source file and the thing between the {} appears as:

000018c0  20 20 46 72 6f 6d 20 20  3d 3e 20 71 71 7b c2 9f  |  From  =
+> qq{..|

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i.e. the character is represented by the c2 9f hex digits.

If I do a test script, and do something like:

binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
my $teststring = qq{Ÿ};
print "$teststring\n";

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And pipe the output to hexdump, I see that $teststring has 4 characters:

c3 82 c2 9f

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So, how do I produce a data structure that holds exactly the same content as "from => qq{Ÿ}" without having the binary character in my source code?

Thanks for any help. R.

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Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com

In reply to Representing "binary" character in code? by robinbowes

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