Re: Perl scripting (was: Arabic-utf-8)

[Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>]

Am Sonntag, 06.06.04, um 23:28 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Thomas A. 
Schmitz:

> Well, if you put the
> use open ':utf8';
> in the header of your perl script, it should work without the hex 
> editor

Not needed with Perl 5.8.x and a proper UTF8 file.

> And just for the record: to put the entire file in one array, use this:
> my @lines = <>;
> my $text = join "", @lines;
>
>    $text =~ s/PUT_YOUR/SUBSTITUIONS_HERE/esg;

Thank you, I always forget the really simple solutions. ;-)

And with File::Slurp you get it directly into a scalar.

> But it looks like you got a working solution now, so have fun playing
> around with it. And boy does it make one feel good when you realize 
> that
> you windoze people are still working with perl 5.6 -- that's the stone
> age, man ;-)

MacOS X has also only 5.6 if you don't install a newer one yourself,
and with newer than 5.8.0 you get endless trouble...


Grüßlis vom Hraban!
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