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dibyendu
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Apr 10, 2009, 1:44 AM

Post #1 of 3 (2136 views)

Issue with special characters in Perl	Can't Post

Am getting some special characters in my browser displayed weirdly, while getting them from from the BLOB of a DB table.

Here it is :

Quote

Code

" My name is &#65533; Dibyendu Chatterjee &#65533;....."

I want all special characters pulled from the BLOB as it is through perl.

Please help...

(This post was edited by dibyendu on Apr 10, 2009, 2:43 AM)

PGScooter
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Apr 20, 2009, 9:52 AM

Post #2 of 3 (2050 views)

Re: [dibyendu] Issue with special characters in Perl [In reply to]	Can't Post

hi dibyendu,

I think it would really help if you posted your code!

Just a newbie guess, but are you pulling something from a hash that contains an array but are referring to it as if it contained a string? You could always use a regex to get rid of the junk, but it seems like a better idea to attack the problem at its source.
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Shree
Novice

Apr 22, 2009, 12:36 AM

Post #3 of 3 (2034 views)

Re: [dibyendu] Issue with special characters in Perl [In reply to]	Can't Post

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $str = "My name is � Dibyendu Chatterjee �.....";
my $specail_characters = $str;

$specail_characters =~ s/[^\&|\#|\;|\.]//g;

print $specail_characters;

Code

 
Output: &#;&#;..... 
 
 
Quote Thanks 
-Shree

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