Re: filtering strings

2006-11-09 Thread Mumia W.
On 11/08/2006 09:00 PM, Bernard van de Koppel wrote: Hi, I am trying to filter out strings with odd characters in directories. In filenames, only the names with alfabetical characters and the charaters with graves like igrave (ì) are allowed. sofar I tried something like $string =~ tr#a-zA-Z

filtering strings

2006-11-09 Thread Bernard van de Koppel
Hi, I am trying to filter out strings with odd characters in directories. In filenames, only the names with alfabetical characters and the charaters with graves like igrave (ì) are allowed. sofar I tried something like $string =~ tr#a-zA-Z[xec][x8d][xc3][xac]##cd; This will however return on