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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 00:28, Brian Fraser <fraserbn@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Chas. Owens <chas.owens@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If you are dealing exclusively with ASCII, then you should be using >> the [bytes][0] pragma; > > It's nitpicky, but I'd advice against ever recommending use bytes in the > beginners list. Or any list really. See: > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/03/msg170010.html > Brian. Hmm, I had missed that change. Thanks. An easier to read version comes from the Perl 5.13.11 version of the bytes pod: This pragma reflects early attempts to incorporate Unicode into perl and has since been superseded. It breaks encapsulation (i.e. it exposes the innards of how the perl executable currently happens to store a string), and use of this module for anything other than debugging purposes is strongly discouraged. If you feel that the functions here within might be useful for your application, this possibly indicates a mismatch between your mental model of Perl Unicode and the current reality. In that case, you may wish to read some of the perl Unicode documentation: L<perluniintro>, L<perlunitut>, L<perlunifaq> and L<perlunicode>. -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read.Thread Previous | Thread Next