Martin Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> suggested: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 08:41:13 +0200 > Andreas Moroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > in our application I have to convert all german > > Umlaute in a string to > > a two char combination ä to ae, Ö to OE and so on. > > > > Can anyone please tell me how to do this ?
> for example: > > % echo "äpfel klöster übelkeit" | perl -ple 's/ä/ae/; > s/ü/ue/; s/ö/oe/;' > aepfel kloester uebelkeit I would suggest you use a hash to map your conversions: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my %map = ( 'ä' => 'ae', 'Ä' => 'Ae', 'ö' => 'oe', 'Ö' => 'Oe', 'ü' => 'ue', 'Ü' => 'Ue', 'ß' => 'ss' ); # add needed conversions! my $test = "Äpfel Klöster Übelkeit"; my $in = '[' . join( '', keys %map ) . ']'; $test =~ s/($in)/$map{$1}/eg; print "$test\n"; HTH, Thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/