Re: A question about strings and hexadecimal numbers of special characters

Hi O && List !


On Wednesday 06 March 2002 11:41 am, you wrote:
> I'm very new to Perl and have a basic question. How can I convert special
> characters contained in a string to hexadesimal numbers. 

sub HTMLify {

  my $what = shift;
  $what =~ s/(\W)/sprintf("%%%x", ord($1))/eg;
  
  return $what;
  
}

HTH,
Jan
-- 
cat /dev/world | perl -e "while (<>) {(/(^.*? \?) 42 \!/) && (print $1)}"
errors->(c)
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