Re: PERL UNIX and strangeness and char conversion


Do you know where your variables are?
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by tybalt89 (Monsignor)

on Jan 18, 2021 at 19:54 UTC ( [id://11127070]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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""more" and those editors are all correct. They are just showing a different representation of the same unprintable character.

perl -pe 'tr/\x80-\xff/?/' <oldfile >convertedfile
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There. I've converted all that strangeness to a plain ASCII ? just like you asked.

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Re^2: PERL UNIX and strangeness and char conversion by Anonymous Monk on Jan 18, 2021 at 21:55 UTC
OK! I THINK I GET IT `perl -pe 'tr/\x93-\x94/"/' <INFILE >OUTFILE` [download] Inserts the " `perl -pe 'tr/\x97/,/' <INFILE >OUTFILE` [download] Inserts the , `perl -pe 'tr/\x91-\x92/'/' <INFILE >OUTFILE` [download] Croaks. If I insert "\" to escape the second ' IT STILL CROAKS! What is special about \x91 and \x92 in the above statement? At least I made progress this time...	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: PERL UNIX and strangeness and char conversion by tybalt89 (Monsignor) on Jan 18, 2021 at 22:11 UTC
The bash shell does not take escapes, try `perl -pe 'tr/\x91-\x92/\x27/' <INFILE >OUTFILE` [download] instead.	[reply] [d/l]

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