[TriLUG] Perl and the M-= (1/2) character

[Andrew Perrin]

Never mind - it appears that adding

binary => 1

to the attributes hash fixes the problem.

ap

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Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl



On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> Sorry if my perl is too rusty, but....
>
> I'm using perl to process some data files, which include addresses that 
> sometimes have a 1/2 symbol in them. The symbol appears to be M-= (i.e., 
> that's what cat -t shows, and when I hit alt-= that's what I get on the 
> screen).  However, my perl script is barfing on the symbols; the problem 
> appears to be with the Text_CSV::XS module, which fails to parse any line 
> containing the character. Any thoughts?
>
> Andy
>
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