Re^2: Escaping Wide Characters

thanks for the reply. how do you eval it? for example, this does not seem to work:

my($x,$y) = ('\x{263a}',undef);
eval '$y = $x';
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and this does not compile:

my($x,$y) = ('\x{263a}',undef);
$y = eval($x);
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what am i doing wrong?

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Re^3: Escaping Wide Characters by almut (Canon) on Mar 05, 2008 at 18:10 UTC
You need to put double quotes around the string, e.g. `my $x = '\x{263a}'; my $y = eval '"'.$x.'"'; # or my $y = eval "\"$x\"";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Escaping Wide Characters by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 05, 2008 at 18:10 UTC
`my $y = eval qq{"$x"};` [download] but see my other post for a safer alternative.	[reply] [d/l]