Thank you for the reply. The file I am processing is a html file and I am using HTML::Parser to process it. Also I am having trouble understanding you helpful reply. I am using HTML::Parser like so ... 
my $p = HTML::Parser->new( api_version => 3,
                         start_h => [\&start, "tagname, attr"],
                         end_h   => [\&end,   "tagname"],
                         text_h   => [\&text,   "dtext"],
                         marked_sections => 1,
                       );


# Parse directly from file
$p->parse_file($inputFile);

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... so I have a sub text() that looks like this ... 
sub text {
        my($origtext, $is_cdata) = @_;

        if ( $origtext =~ /^\s*$/ ) { return; }
        $origtext = "UNDEF" if !defined $origtext;
        $is_cdata = "UNDEF" if !defined $is_cdata;
        $origtext =~ s/ \& / \& /g;
        $origtext =~ s/½/\½/g;
        print $origtext;
}

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... so when should I do the "local $/;" call?

In reply to Re^2: How do I regex for characters like ¾, ¼ ? by Plankton
in thread How do I regex for characters like ¾, ¼ ? by Plankton

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