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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Match hex value in string (Perl) Post 302438288 by Guyverix on Monday 19th of July 2010 09:02:41 AM
Old 07-19-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by alister
I'm not familiar with perl's unicode capabilities, but assuming that the unicode 2026 character is encoded in utf8, a non-unicode/utf-8 aware approach will have to match a sequence of three bytes: 0xE2 0x80 0xA6.

Unicode Character 'HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS' (U+2026)

Code:
$ printf '\xe2\x80\xa6\n' | perl -lne 'print "MATCHED: $_" if /\xe2\x80\xa6/'
MATCHED: ...

Regards,
Alister
Thanks! Thats exactly what I needed!
 

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PPI::Token::Regexp::Match(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      PPI::Token::Regexp::Match(3)

NAME
PPI::Token::Regexp::Match - A standard pattern match regex INHERITANCE
PPI::Token::Regexp::Match isa PPI::Token::Regexp isa PPI::Token isa PPI::Element SYNOPSIS
$text =~ m/match regexp/; $text =~ /match regexp/; DESCRIPTION
A "PPI::Token::Regexp::Match" object represents a single match regular expression. Just to be doubly clear, here are things that are and aren't considered a match regexp. # Is a match regexp /This is a match regexp/; m/Old McDonald had a farm/eieio; # These are NOT match regexp qr/This is a regexp quote-like operator/; s/This is a/replace regexp/; METHODS
There are no methods available for "PPI::Token::Regexp::Match" beyond those provided by the parent PPI::Token::Regexp, PPI::Token and PPI::Element classes. Got any ideas for methods? Submit a report to rt.cpan.org! SUPPORT
See the support section in the main module. AUTHOR
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org> COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. perl v5.18.2 2011-02-25 PPI::Token::Regexp::Match(3)
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