"Chas. Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As you can see it is normal Perl. The real magic happens inside the
> length and other functions. They check the value of the hints global
> variable ($^H) and change their behavior if the "use bytes" bit is
> set. In Perl 5.10 we have been given the
On Jan 12, 2008 1:50 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > which outputs "char<19>".
> >
> > If you're hoping for something different from this then perhaps you
> > would let us know.
>
> Sorry if I was unclear as to what I was after. Yes that was it.
>
> > '
"Chas. Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It is important to note that this returns the number of characters,
> not the number of bytes (in this case they are the same since all of
> the UTF-8 characters in your string take up only one byte). You need
> to use the bytes pragma to force length t
Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> which outputs "char<19>".
>
> If you're hoping for something different from this then perhaps you
> would let us know.
Sorry if I was unclear as to what I was after. Yes that was it.
> 'bytes' is a pragma, and documentation on it can be retrieved in the
>
On Jan 12, 2008 12:29 PM, Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> My best guess at what you're looking for is the total number of bytes in
> all the elements of an array. This can be achieved by manually
> accumulating the lengths:
>
>use strict;
>use warnings;
>
>my @ar = qw(one tw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do we get the length of a variable in bytes?
I see the length function returns length in characters.
unless you (From perldoc -f length):
use "do { use bytes; length(EXPR) }"
Nothing there would seem to indicate it cannot be used to get the
length in cha
