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Re^2: why doesnt my regex doesnt matches certain character?
by Anonymous Monk on May 11, 2005 at 10:32 UTC
    Hi Pelagic

    I cant copy the sample input. The character appears as ''. I want to match this character in my regex

    Thanks in advance

    A M Angelo

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      Those are control characters of some type. That particular one is "Delete" - character \x7F. Assuming they are all the same, you can match against that. It might be better to match against a character class though, in case they vary.

      Try:

      $text =~ /\p{Control}/;

      to match, or

      $text =~ s/\p{Control}//g;

      to remove.

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      The trick is to determine the ascii value of the character. Once you have that you can take its octal value and use ie \035 to match for it, where /s/035/the octal value of that character/. An entirely different approach, although far less likely to work is to simply use . which will match 1 character, regardless of what it is. Ofcourse this depends very heavily on whether the text you're trying to match has a specific order or not.

      Remember rule one...

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