Re: Formatting rtf - problems

[moritz]

perl -wle '$_="|<br />|"; s{<br />}{\par}ig; print'
Unrecognized escape \p passed through at -e line 1.
|par|

So the first solution certainly is wrong.

And I don't see how the search-and-replace could insert some weird characters - are you sure they aren't in the string before? Use hexdump or Data::Dumper to find out:

perl5.10.0 -wle '$_="!<br />!"; s{<br />}{\\par}ig; print'|hexdump -C
00000000  21 5c 70 61 72 21 0a                              |!\par!.|
00000007

If you are sure that the regex is misbehaving, please give us a short, executable and self-contained piece of code that demonstrates that behaviour.

[s_m_b]

Sorted it - I was trying to be a little too smart. RTF::Writer formats the strings it gets sent, and assumes they are plain text. I was trying to do the inline formatting before giving it to the writer, so it was reformatting - hence the mangled strings!

By sending it plain old \n instead of \line or \par, it behaves.