Re: Regexp non-alphanumerics to spaces

"John W. Krahn" schreef:
Dr.Ruud:
John W. Krahn:
Rob Dixon:
Grant:

Hello, can you guys show me how to convert each non-alphanumeric
character in a string to a space, and then convert any number of
consecutive spaces in the string to a single space?

$text =~ s/[^[:alnum:]]/ /g;
$text =~ s/\s+/ /g;

$text =~ s/[[:^alnum:]\s]+/ /g;

Isn't \s already part of [[:^alnum:]]?

Oops, yes, I was wrong. :-)

Not really, the \s did no harm, it was just extra.


The space I am always concerned about is 0xA0:

$ perl -wle '$_ = "\xA0"; /\s/ and print "s"'

$ perl -wle '$_ = "\xA0\x{100}"; chop; /\s/ and print "s"'
s

This is because in Perl (5.8?) the first string is a Latin1 string, and
the second a utf8 string.

--
Affijn, Ruud

"Gewoon is een tijger."

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