> > Constructions like [A-Za-z] are non-portable to EBCDIC, since the > alphabetic code points are non-contiguous.
As someone already pointed out, not true when talking about Perl: both the regex character ranges and the tr operator were surgically altered to run for the hills^Wpresidency of United^W^W^W^W^W correctly when in EBCDIC. > At least Mac OS 9 is ASCII. As in "ASCII-compatible in the lower 128", but definitely not anything like ISO 8859-1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac-roman > Josh > > > >
