Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:47:37 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: for perl wizards. Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910090731450.28005@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <200910091026.n99AQPUv014685@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200910091026.n99AQPUv014685@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > > > Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a > > text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be > > used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner or script to translate > > hex back into ', ", -- [that's a dash), and so forth. Why does > > this fail to trans the hex code to an apostrophe? > > > > perl -pi.bak -e 's/\xe2\x80\x99/'/g' > > You need to escape the inner quote character, of course. > I think sed is better suited for this task than perl. That's twice now people have suggested sed instead of perl. Why? For many uses, perl is a better sed than sed. The regex engine is far more powerful and escapes are much simpler. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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