[San-Diego-pm] accents
Douglas Wilson
dgwilson1 at cox.net
Tue Oct 26 21:32:17 CDT 2004
Joel Fentin wrote:
> I need to see if what the Spanish language operator enters is contained
> in a long hunk of text. Something like this:
> if($X =~ /$Y/){[Do something]}
>
> The operator might enter josé, JOSÉ, or jose. He might enter niño, NIÑO,
> or nino.
>
> An i modifier to m// will take care of case. Is there any fell swoop way
> of taking care of accents?
Those characters all have the high order bit on, so here is a crude
way:
my $str = "josé, JOSÉ, or jose. He might enter niño, NIÑO";
my @funny_chars = $str =~ /([^\x00-\x7F])/g;
print "@funny_chars\n";
Cheers,
Doug
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