Hi everyone! This is my first posting but hopefully not my last. I have a small problem with matching Swedish characters i Perl. I'm developing a simple database script that recieves a string from an html-form and matches the string against every line in a file. If there's a match I print it. The code goes something like this: 
foreach (@lines)    {
    s/\n$//;
    
    @items = split /$field_separator/;
    $item_str = $items[$field-1];
    
    if ( $item_str =~ m/^$search_str$/i)    {
        # We have a match, do something!
    }
}

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The case-insensitive matching works fine, as long as the strings don't contain any special swedish characters, like å, ä or ö. If $item_str contains the character ä and $search_str the character Ä I dont get a match. It is very important that this works (most of our customers are Swedish) and I know there is an easy solution to my problem. I just can't remember it. I hope someone can help me.

Jocke

In reply to Problem matching non-english chars by Guano

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