[Omaha.pm] New to Perl-ing
Jay Hannah
jay at jays.net
Wed Mar 29 18:29:48 PST 2006
Theodore Katseres wrote:
> On 3/28/06, griffinheart at go.com <griffinheart at go.com> wrote:
>> I was wondering, however, whether Perl could support the extended
>> ASCII chart (256 symbols) or not.
>
> Encode::Byte
> http://perldoc.perl.org/Encode/Supported.html
>
>> If Perl can't, I might have to find a new language to do what I'm
>> trying.
>
> Perl can.
Yes, I think you'll be very happy w/ Perl when it comes to text processing. It handles extended ASCII and Unicode natively.
If you have questions/problems don't hesitate to ask!
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j
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