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Re: [Omaha.pm] New to Perl-ing

Theodore Katseres wrote:

On 3/28/06, griffinheart@go.com <griffinheart@go.com> wrote:

I was wondering, however, whether Perl could support the extended
ASCII chart (256 symbols) or not.


Encode::Byte
http://perldoc.perl.org/Encode/Supported.html


If Perl can't, I might have to find a new language to do what I'm
trying.


Perl can.
Yes, I think you'll be very happy w/ Perl when it comes to text processing. It handles extended ASCII and Unicode natively. 
If you have questions/problems don't hesitate to ask!

Welcome to the Omaha Perl Mongers!

http://perldoc.perl.org/index-functions-by-cat.html
"Functions for SCALARs or strings"

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