Re^2: Hangman Assistant

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Ah, good call.

Now what to do about the next if =~ /[^a-z]/;...

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Re^3: Hangman Assistant by Jorge_de_Burgos (Beadle) on Jul 13, 2009 at 14:05 UTC
A good line for a perl program aimed at running under various languages under modern Linux systems would be this: `use encoding ':locale';` That way, all calculations about string length (among others) are base on characters and not on bytes. For example, many Spanish characters, under a UTF-8 system such as mine (Ubuntu 9.04), are coded in a 2-byte scheme--but this should be transparent to the programmer. So that `length('año')` yields `4` before adding `use encoding ':locale';` and `length('año')` yields `3` after adding `use encoding ':locale';`.	[reply]
Re^3: Hangman Assistant by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Jul 13, 2009 at 00:54 UTC
`next if =~ /[^[:lower:]]/;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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