using perl to sub § for \xa7.

[Parv]

in message <20060318003815.GB19216 at thought.org>,
wrote Gary Kline thusly...
>
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 06:14:17PM -0500, Parv wrote:
> > in message <20060317072405.GA249 at thought.org>,
> > wrote Gary Kline thusly...
> > >
> > > I've got several chapters with footnptes with that double-S
> > > "section" character.  In HTML, the code is &sect;   The thing I
> > > want to do is use perl to s/ \xa7/&sect;/g.....but don't know the
> > > keycombo to /find or designate tthe hex a7 byte.  Can anybody clue
> > > me in?
> > 
> > Use '-i' option for in place editing, '-p' to print the results to
> > the file, '-e' to specify the code to run ...
> > 
> >   perl -pi -e 's/\xa7/&sect;/g' file-1 file-2 file-3
> > 
> 
> Yeah, this is what I use for most cmd-line subs, but will a
> literal "\xa7" be interpreted by the shell as the section
> character?

Well, shell's understanding is immaterial, but not the tool's -- perl
in this case; and quite possibly tool's behaviour under currently
set locale(1) -- which will be doing the substitution.


> (Where is there an online map of all ISO-8859-1 keycodes?  [E.g.:
> an aigu is <alt>-i; it is "\xe9" in keystrokes.])

Can't say, but you can generate your own ...

  http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=246185


  - Parv

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