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Re: Strip characters without recursive loop
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Re: Strip characters without recursive loop


  • Subject: Re: Strip characters without recursive loop
  • From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:31:39 +0100

At 3:01 pm +0200 20/8/03, Emmanuel wrote:

>set s to "1234-56abc"
do shell script "perl -e '
$_= q~" & s & "~ ; s~[^\\d]~~g ; print '"

This makes an error on my machine (I am testing with a piece of text of 31,000 characters). Maybe the list server changed some characters.

No. Almost certainly your 31,000 characters contained at least one ' and that would break it, for obvious reasons if you look at it. This direct approach can only be used if there are no ' in the string. A file has to be used otherwise, as I've meantioned a couple of times fairly recently.

JD


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