[OSM-dev] perl and special utf-8 characters

[Gary68]

thank you, robert!!!

gerhard

On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 09:02 +0100, Robert Joop wrote:
> On 11-03-11 17:56:28 CET, Gary68 wrote:
> > 
> > i wouldn't know how to do it with regexes.
> > 
> > ok. let's put it this way. i have a POSITIVE list of allowed chars
> > (inkl. utf8 2byte ones) and i have a string.
> > 
> > i want to eliminate all chars in the string that are not in the POSITIVE
> > list.
> 
> sounds very simple.
> 
> :r /tmp/g2
> use utf8;
> 
> use Encode;
> 
> my $s = 'abcäöüß$€✓XYZ';
> print "full: ", encode ('UTF-8', $s), "\n";
> $s =~ tr/\000-\377//cd;
> print "latin1 only: ", encode ('UTF-8', $s), "\n";
> $s =~ tr/\000-\177//cd;
> print "ASCII only: ", encode ('UTF-8', $s), "\n";
> __END__
> 
> 
> :r !perl /tmp/g2
> full: abcäöüß$€✓XYZ
> latin1 only: abcäöüß$XYZ
> ASCII only: abc$XYZ
> 
> rj