> I should have been more specific or maybe I have missed the point again :( > the file is UTF-8 encoded which is fine for what I want. > > However, I need to get at bullet points within the text. these apear as the > entity â~@¢ in vi.
Have you got the hex code for that one? I presume this is the only character causing difficulty - hence we really want to avoid turning the whole string into hex numbers - which are harder to process. > So I thought if could the hex value it would able to deal with any > regexification in that form and the go back to text. Okay, here is my slightly modified strategy if you are just wanting to parse the file: my $bullet = qr/\x00/; # qr = quoted regex then you can say: my ($extracted = $line) =~ /${bullet}(.*)$/; to extract the text between that character, and the end of the line. Alternatively, use the "tr" function to map the bullet to something better: tr/\x000/\x000/; # Put in the right hex codes Either way, you need to know what the hex code for the bullet is. > Does the solution you suggest still apply? If as understood, then definately! Jonathan Paton __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]