Honoured Monks,

I'm having troubble with "length" of utf-8 strings. As far as I see, "length" returns correctly the length, in bytes, of a hard-coded string but not of a string read from a file (or STDIN).

The following script correctly prints : 2

use utf8;
$x="\x{0103}";
use bytes;
print length($x);

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but not if $x is read from STDIN: 
use utf8;
binmode(STDIN,":utf8");
$x=<>;
chomp $x;
use bytes;
print length($x);

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In this case the output is "1".

My environment: WinXP Home Edition, Active Perl 5.8.0.

Thanks for any ideeas.

mrd

In reply to length in bytes of utf8 string by mrd

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