in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Gary Kline thusly... > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 06:14:17PM -0500, Parv wrote: > > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > wrote Gary Kline thusly... > > > > > > I've got several chapters with footnptes with that double-S > > > "section" character. In HTML, the code is § The thing I > > > want to do is use perl to s/ \xa7/§/g.....but don't know the > > > keycombo to /find or designate tthe hex a7 byte. Can anybody clue > > > me in? > > > > Use '-i' option for in place editing, '-p' to print the results to > > the file, '-e' to specify the code to run ... > > > > perl -pi -e 's/\xa7/§/g' file-1 file-2 file-3 > > > > Yeah, this is what I use for most cmd-line subs, but will a > literal "\xa7" be interpreted by the shell as the section > character?
Well, shell's understanding is immaterial, but not the tool's -- perl in this case; and quite possibly tool's behaviour under currently set locale(1) -- which will be doing the substitution. > (Where is there an online map of all ISO-8859-1 keycodes? [E.g.: > an aigu is <alt>-i; it is "\xe9" in keystrokes.]) Can't say, but you can generate your own ... http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=246185 - Parv -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
