in reply to Matching  & € type characters with a regex

It seems you are displaying UTF-8 as iso-latin-1 or similar. "Â" is not a character, "®" is the encoding of one character. Decode your encoded strings on input. Appropriately encode your decoded strings on output.

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Re^2: Matching  & € type characters with a regex
by Rodster001 (Pilgrim) on Feb 12, 2009 at 18:39 UTC
    Ok. Sooooo... what do I do? I can go though and find all the characters and do s/Â//gsi for each character. Or, is there an easier way to match these types of characters?
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      First you have to understand what character encodings are, and how they are handled in Perl.

      I've written this article to explain that, and there's also a lot of other useful information: perluniintro, Encode, perlunicode.

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      If you decode the input as I suggested, you won't have any "Â" or even "®", just the single character those bytes represent. There isn't anything to search and replace.
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        This isn't the result of some processing I have done. This is what I have, a bunch of files that fell into my lap that already look like this. I have to clean them up.
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