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I have been having an extremely trying 30 minutes or so, trying to regex out no-break space unicode entities, represented in my very large raw text file as \302\240. I was just about to post a request for some help, but figured out a solution to my problem. Perhaps it isn't the best solution, but I was unable to find anything concise which solved my problem, on the web, but I suppose there are others out there who have, or will have the same problem - so here's a very short, very simple solution:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use warnings; use strict; binmode(STDIN,":bytes"); binmode(STDOUT,":bytes"); while(<>){ chomp; s/\302\240//g; s/\s+/ /g; print $_."\n"; }


This completely solved my problem. If it is incomplete, or not a very clever thing to do, please improve it. If it solves somebody elses problem as well - GREAT! joe

2006-09-14 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines

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Original title: 'Annoying Problem: solved'


In reply to A Regex for no-break space Unicode Entities by kettle

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