On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 09:44 -0400, Tony Heal wrote: > I have a text dump of a postgresql database and I want to find out if there > are any characters that are not standard keyboard characters. Is there a way > to use regex to do this without doing a character by character scan of a 5GB > file.
No. > I want to know where any character that is not one of these is in the > file: a-z A-Z 0-9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL > PROTECTED]&*()[]{};:'",.<>/?|\> > &*()[]{};:'",.<>/?|\ See `perldoc POSIX` and search for 'isalpha' -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn "Where there's duct tape, there's hope." "Perl is the duct tape of the Internet." Hassan Schroeder, Sun's first webmaster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
