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Re: How to cenvert to ascii
Joined: 03 May 2004
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Re: How to cenvert to ascii
> How to convert the following string to regular ascii:
>
> mailto:we
I guess you mean: How do you get the character equivalent to ASCII code
109 etc.
(1) (split /;/) turns your string into a list of items.
(2) Of each item, drop the first two characters (&#) and any leading
zero
(to avoid being it interpreted as octal in step 3)
(3) You end up with a list of numbers 109 97 105 etc. Use the chr
function
to turn it into a character.
Ronald
Joined: 05 May 2004
Posts: 16
Re: How to cenvert to ascii
This is the optimal solution if all characters are codified using the
&___; notation. If you notice, the colon (`:`) is not codified, which
makes the process a little bit more difficult.
I played around with the string for a while but gave up. I thought of
the following:
1) Sequentially parsing the string from beginnign to end using a
construct like /^(&#d+?;)/
1a) If no match is found, extracct the next character `as is`
2) Processing the extracted string using your routine from steps 2 and
3 below
3) Extracting it from the original string with substring
4) Return to step 1 until all the string is done
Any other suggestions?
Rex
--- fischron.external@... wrote:
> > How to convert the following string to regular ascii:
> >
> > mailto:we
>
> I guess you mean: How do you get the character equivalent to ASCII
> code
> 109 etc.
>
> (1) (split /;/) turns your string into a list of items.
> (2) Of each item, drop the first two characters (&#) and any leading
> zero
> (to avoid being it interpreted as octal in step 3)
> (3) You end up with a list of numbers 109 97 105 etc. Use the chr
> function
> to turn it into a character.
>
> Ronald
>
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Joined: 31 May 2004
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Re: How to cenvert to ascii
Allo!
>This is the optimal solution if all characters are codified using the
Here is the solution:
Use regexp replacement instead:
$string =~ s/&#(d+);/chr($1)/ge;
or even better, use a module:
use HTML::Entities;
$string = decode_entities($string);
This work great.
Gilles B.
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Re: How to cenvert to ascii
Wow. Great solution. This is the one.
Nice going Gilles.
Rex
--- Gilles Beauregard <gilles@...> wrote:
> Allo!
>
> >This is the optimal solution if all characters are codified using
> the
>
> Here is the solution:
>
> Use regexp replacement instead:
>
> $string =~ s/&#(d+);/chr($1)/ge;
>
> or even better, use a module:
>
> use HTML::Entities;
> $string = decode_entities($string);
>
> This work great.
>
> Gilles B.
>
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