Re^2: Substr warning

Hi,

thanks for this. There is plenty of string left, maybe there es a problem with special characters. The problems occurs at least one time while trying to read in a French name (with accent grave).

Is there a way to tell perl to ignore these special characters for the moment, so that I can transform them later?

Cheers!

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Re^3: Substr warning by bart (Canon) on Sep 25, 2004 at 00:33 UTC
No, you're barking up the wrong tree. That warning can only mean that your starting index is bigger then the length of the string — or, if negative, too large on the other side. Perl starts counting from the end of the string backwards, then. Special characters have nothing at all to do with it. As an aside: I think your approach is wrong. You're tackling this as if you're programming in C. Perl has better ways to parse strings than this extremely low level stuff: you really should take a step back, decide what you're actually trying to achieve, and use a regex or maybe two, to do the same job.	[reply]

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Re^3: Substr warning
by bart (Canon) on Sep 25, 2004 at 00:33 UTC

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As an aside: I think your approach is wrong. You're tackling this as if you're programming in C. Perl has better ways to parse strings than this extremely low level stuff: you really should take a step back, decide what you're actually trying to achieve, and use a regex or maybe two, to do the same job.

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