Re: XML Parsing error - regex problem?

[Tom Phoenix]

On 3/10/06, Graeme McLaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've checked my XML file and it contains:

> St. Patrick<92>s R.C. P.S.
>
> This is because St. Patrick's contains an apostrophe.

I'm guessing that where I see four characters "<92>", the actual file
has a single character. Some tools render unusual characters that way.

> I have a couple of
> regexes to handle ampersands and apostrophes, however the apostrophe regex
> doesn't appear to be working correctly:
>
>
> ampersand regex works:
>
> $data->[$i] =~ s/&/&/g;

I'm not sure I know what you mean by "works". It seems to be replacing
every ampersand with an ampersand in the target string, which would be
a no-op if it didn't have side effects.

> apostrophe regex doesn't work:
>
> $data->[$i] =~ s/'/'/g;

It doesn't? It's probably matching any true apostrophes.

> I've worked out that the character is a type of apostrophe which has
> a hex value of 92.  How would I write my regex to substitute this character
> for a normal apostrophe?

> I've tried: s/92/'/g;

> and it didn't work.

I think you're looking for one of these:

s/\x92/'/g
s/\x92/'/g
tr/\x92/'/

Backslash escapes are documented in perlop. Hope this helps!

--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training

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RE: XML Parsing error - regex problem?

[Graeme McLaren]

Hi all, I've worked out that the character is a type of apostrophe which has 
a hex value of 92.  How would I write my regex to substitute this character 
for a normal apostrophe?


I've tried: s/92/'/g;

and it didn't work.


Any ideas?





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Hi all, I'm getting the following XML parsing error:

[Fri Mar 10 09:37:39 2006] insert_xml.pl: not well-formed (invalid token) 
at line 13628, column 24, byte 413248:

[Fri Mar 10 09:37:39 2006] insert_xml.pl: LA14
[Fri Mar 10 09:37:39 2006] insert_xml.pl: 5741726
[Fri Mar 10 09:37:39 2006] insert_xml.pl: St. Patricks R.C. 
P.S.

[Fri Mar 10 09:37:39 2006] insert_xml.pl: ===^
[Fri Mar 10 09:37:39 2006] insert_xml.pl: Falkirk
[Fri Mar 10 09:37:39 2006] insert_xml.pl: CE-511 (Edge)
[Fri Mar 10 09:37:39 2006] insert_xml.pl:  at 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm line 
185



I've checked my XML file and it contains:


St. Patrick<92>s R.C. P.S.

This is because St. Patrick's contains an apostrophe.  I have a couple of 
regexes to handle ampersands and apostrophes, however the apostrophe regex 
doesn't appear to be working correctly:



ampersand regex works:

$data->[$i] =~ s/&/&/g;


apostrophe regex doesn't work:

$data->[$i] =~ s/'/'/g;


Any ideas on this one?

G :)

P.S. Thank you to all who replied to my previous post, I got that array 
dereferenced properly.




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XML Parsing error - regex problem?

[Graeme McLaren]

Hi all, I'm getting the following XML parsing error:

[Fri Mar 10 09:37:39 2006] insert_xml.pl: not well-formed (invalid token) at 
line 13628, column 24, byte 413248:

[Fri Mar 10 09:37:39 2006] insert_xml.pl: LA14
[Fri Mar 10 09:37:39 2006] insert_xml.pl: 5741726
[Fri Mar 10 09:37:39 2006] insert_xml.pl: St. Patricks R.C. 
P.S.

[Fri Mar 10 09:37:39 2006] insert_xml.pl: ===^
[Fri Mar 10 09:37:39 2006] insert_xml.pl: Falkirk
[Fri Mar 10 09:37:39 2006] insert_xml.pl: CE-511 (Edge)
[Fri Mar 10 09:37:39 2006] insert_xml.pl:  at 
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm line 
185



I've checked my XML file and it contains:


St. Patrick<92>s R.C. P.S.

This is because St. Patrick's contains an apostrophe.  I have a couple of 
regexes to handle ampersands and apostrophes, however the apostrophe regex 
doesn't appear to be working correctly:



ampersand regex works:

$data->[$i] =~ s/&/&/g;


apostrophe regex doesn't work:

$data->[$i] =~ s/'/'/g;


Any ideas on this one?

G :)

P.S. Thank you to all who replied to my previous post, I got that array 
dereferenced properly.




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