in reply to Testing for unprintable characters

use POSIX;

for ("foo; is ok", "foo\x3") {
  if (/[^[:print:]]/) {
    print "Contains unprintables\n";
  }
  else {
    print "$_ is safe\n";
  }
}

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Re^2: Testing for unprintable characters
by davorg (Chancellor) on Nov 15, 2005 at 16:47 UTC

    Despite the name, you don't need to use the POSIX module in order to use POSIX character classes.

    --
    <http://dave.org.uk>

    "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club."
    -- Chip Salzenberg

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