Re: Re: Re: How do I determine if a string contains non ascii characters

There is a POSIX macro for this: [:ascii:]. That is NOT a character class in and of itself -- it must be used IN a character class:

if ($string =~ /[^[:ascii:]]/) {
  # a non-ASCII character was found!
}
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Re4: How do I determine if a string contains non ascii characters by Hofmator (Curate) on Jul 13, 2001 at 19:40 UTC
Or use the negated POSIX (perlish addition) 'character class' directly: `if ($string =~ /[[:^ascii:]]//) {` -- Hofmator	[reply] [d/l]