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Replace whitespace with hyphen, ASCII code problem instead

tomitzel
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Oct 11, 2012, 5:05 PM

Post #1 of 8 (1419 views)

Replace whitespace with hyphen, ASCII code problem instead	Can't Post

Hello,

I have a string, for eg. I have cars.
I need to replace all whitespaces with hyphens. I use for this the expression:

Code

$fstring =~ s/ /-/g;

But this generates the string:
I,045have,045cars.

Any idea why? If you try to use underscore, it works correctly.

Thanks.

BillKSmith
Veteran

Oct 11, 2012, 7:43 PM

Post #2 of 8 (1415 views)

Re: [tomitzel] Replace whitespace with hyphen, ASCII code problem instead [In reply to]	Can't Post

Works fine for me. (I cannot duplicate the problem.) Please post a complete program which exhibits the symptom.
Good Luck,
Bill

tomitzel
New User

Oct 11, 2012, 11:55 PM

Post #3 of 8 (1413 views)

Re: [BillKSmith] Replace whitespace with hyphen, ASCII code problem instead [In reply to]	Can't Post

I am just going to post the subroutine in which it is that line, the file has over 2000 lines of code.

Code

sub encode_dir 
{ 
 
my ($fstring) = @_; 
my ($ms, $enc_string, $oneletter, $bstr); 
 
$fstring =~ s/ /-/g; 
 
 for ($ms = 0; $ms < length($fstring); $ms++) 
	{ 
	 
	$oneletter = substr($fstring, $ms, 1); 
	 
	if (($oneletter !~ /[0-9a-zA-Z]/) and ($oneletter ne "-")) 
		{ 
			$bstr = ord($oneletter); 
			if (length($bstr) == 1) {$bstr = "00" . $bstr;} 
			if (length($bstr) == 2) {$bstr = "0" . $bstr;} 
			$bstr = "," . $bstr; 
			$enc_string = $enc_string . $bstr; 
		} 
		else 
		{ 
			$enc_string = $enc_string . $oneletter; 
		} 
	} 
 
return ($enc_string); 
 
}

Code

Laurent_R
Veteran / Moderator

Oct 11, 2012, 11:56 PM

Post #4 of 8 (1412 views)

Re: [tomitzel] Replace whitespace with hyphen, ASCII code problem instead [In reply to]	Can't Post

I also absolutely don't see how this regular expression would have such effect. Please provide a complete example showing your problem.

tomitzel
New User

Oct 12, 2012, 12:10 AM

Post #5 of 8 (1410 views)

Re: [Laurent_R] Replace whitespace with hyphen, ASCII code problem instead [In reply to]	Can't Post

I've ran myself also that subroutine and in indeed the problem doesn't seem to be there.

After that encoding I am making a directory out of the string, could it be that function mkdir causes that?

FishMonger
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Oct 12, 2012, 7:44 AM

Post #6 of 8 (1406 views)

Re: [tomitzel] Replace whitespace with hyphen, ASCII code problem instead [In reply to]	Can't Post

I'm able to duplicate your problem if I remove and ($oneletter ne "-") from the conditional, which must be what you did when you experienced the problem.

FishMonger
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Oct 12, 2012, 8:09 AM

Post #7 of 8 (1401 views)

Re: [tomitzel] Replace whitespace with hyphen, ASCII code problem instead [In reply to]	Can't Post

BTW, your sub could be reduced and made more efficient and easier to read/understand/maintain.

Code

use 5.10.0; 
use strict; 
use warnings; 
 
my $str = 'I have cars'; 
$str = encode_dir($str); 
say $str; 
 
 
sub encode_dir { 
    my @chars = split('', $_[0]); 
    foreach (@chars) { 
	next if tr / /-/; 
	next if /[[:alnum:]]/; 
	$_ = ',' . sprintf("%03d", ord $_); 
    } 
    return join('', @chars); 
}

BillKSmith
Veteran

Oct 12, 2012, 9:04 AM

Post #8 of 8 (1395 views)

Re: [FishMonger] Replace whitespace with hyphen, ASCII code problem instead [In reply to]	Can't Post

Even easier (and works with much older versions of perl).

Code

use strict; 
use warnings; 
my $str = 'I have cars.'; 
$str = encode_dir($str); 
print $str; 
sub encode_dir {  
    my ($str) = @_; 
    $str =~ tr / /-/; 
    $str =~ s/([^-\da-zA-Z])/sprintf '%03d', ord $1/ge; 
    return $str; 
}

Good Luck,
Bill

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