unicode problem (?)

2003-01-24 Thread Zemer Rick
Hello, I have program that reads in text from an excel spreadsheet (using the Spreadsheet-ParseExcel module) that works great until... one of the cells has text that contains a tilda. It then appears that the program goes ape-s**t and starts printing out unicode (or multi-byte characters). Can

RE: Editors

2002-12-17 Thread Zemer Rick
FWIW: I have been using CodeWright (www.starbase.com), but have recently become enamored with Jedit -- written in Java, open source, supports Perl mode, very extensible I'm still trying to make it "fit" me, but the difficulty lies in me, not in the editor. (www.jedit.org). Codewright is a ve

Beginners -- a suggestion

2002-11-21 Thread Zemer Rick
I too am rather new to Perl, and have found the OpenPerlIDE debugger to be helpful. It is available on sourceforge.net and probably elsewhere. Hope that helps. -rz. "She was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops." -kv. -Original Message- From