Re: Quick Regex Question

Converting to a hex value is pretty easy:

perl -e '$_ = q(^%@|CaD5H); s/([^\w-])/sprintf qq(%lx), ord($1)/eg; pr
+int'
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Doing the reverse will be a lot more tricky, unless you add a character to the start of each hex replacement to mark it out as such.

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Re: Re: Quick Regex Question by Albannach (Monsignor) on Feb 08, 2001 at 01:01 UTC
Well if you need to be able to reverse it, why not just convert the whole dang string to hex (like a really conservative version of uuencode), provided the filename won't get too long. -- I'd like to be able to assign to an luser	[reply]