in reply to ignore UTF codes

$_="Canciones\\251STAMPID\\253\\277De quien es la cancion \"STAND BY M
+E\"*4 the cause";
s/\\[0-9][0-9][0-9]//g;
print;

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Re^2: ignore UTF codes
by kettle (Beadle) on Mar 16, 2006 at 09:07 UTC
    Thanks for the help!

    Actually, the above doesn't work, because '\251' (and all the other similarily structured codes) were being interpreted by perl as A SINGLE CHARACTER. Which is weird.

    However, it turns out I've found a solution. The problem was that the file was not, in fact encoded in UTF-8, but was encoded in Western(ISO-8859-1).

    I used xemacs to translate the page into UTF-8, and my problems more or less disappeared -- well, perl finally, grudgingly decided to recognize all the odd characters and I was able to get some useful work done!

    Thanks again for the help!
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