Daryl C. W. O'Shea writes:
> Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 01:52:56AM -0500, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote:
> >> Why do we have Logger.pm converting spaces to underscores? This seems
> >> to be causing nothing but confusion of users.
> >
> > fwiw, it's not spaces:
> >
> > $line =~ s/[\x00-\x1f]/_/gm; # replace control characters with "_"
> >
> > tab ('\t') is in that range.
>
> Ah, I didn't look. I just recalled Michael mentioning it last week or so.
>
>
> > how about we do something like this instead:
> >
> > $line =~ tr/\x09\x20\x00-\x1f/ _/s;
> >
> > it'll replace multiple tabs and spaces with a single space, and the
> > other control chars with an underscore.
>
> Sounds good (a lot better) to me. Something for 3.1.2.
+1
--j.
