Not at all. In fact I concede. This largely depends on the user's locale.
Just in
2009/3/27 Chris Wagner <wagn...@plebeian.com>
> Sorry for being contrarian here, but this is wrong. Unconditionally
> blowing
> away control characters is not the right way to do anything. Using Perl's
> own encoding disciplines is the right way to do this. While this tr// may
> work in this case and on other simple files, u just don't know what
> legitimate unicode is in there that u want to keep. Especially on Windows.
>
>
> At 09:22 AM 3/27/2009 +0900, justin.allegak...@maptek.com.au wrote:
> >Here's the preferred way of opening files along with the magic tr
> operator:
> >
> >use strict;
> >use warnings;
> >use Fatal qw( open );
> >
> >my $file = 'msinfo.txt';
> >
> >open my $FILE, '<', $file;
> >while ( <$FILE> )
> >{
> > tr/\x20-\x7f//cd;
> >
> > print "$_\n";
> >}
> >close $FILE;
> >
> >
> >__END__
>
>
>
>
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