Re: replace chars

From: "Dr.Ruud" <rvtol+news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

"Octavian Rasnita" schreef:
I have also seen that length($string) returns the number of bytes of
$string, and not the number of chars (if the string contains UTF-8
chars).

This tells me that you are taking input from an octet buffer that comes
from outside.

Yes, I am getting it from a SQLite database.

my $octets = <>;
my $string;
eval {
$string = Encode::decode("utf8", $octets, Encode::FB_CROAK);
1;
} or {
# malformed input
}


Ok, I can get the size of the string using this code, but please tell me how to get the UTF-8 chars from this string.

After decoding the octets, if I do

my @chars = split //, $string;

then it also returns the octets separately and not the UTF-8 chars.

Thanks.

Octavian

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