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use re 'asciir'; ???

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From:
Nick Ing-Simmons
Date:
March 28, 2001 04:24
Subject:
use re 'asciir'; ???
Message ID:
200103281223.NAA00450@mikado.tiuk.ti.com

I have just coined a new hints flag HINT_RE_ASCIIR to help out 
on EBCDIC. It causes "ranges" like [!-~] to be interpreted in 
ASCII/Unicode space. 

i.e. in C world:

      start = NATIVE_TO_ASCII('!');
      end   = NATIVE_TO_ASCII('~');  
      for (i = start; i <= end; i++)
       {
        match_if_ch(ASCII_TO_NATIVE(i));
       } 

Something like that is needed to avoid having to re-write 
MIME::QuotedPrint and similar things. Instead of a re-write one adds

use re 'asciir'; 

tr/// should probably honour same hint.

Vetos and/or name-change requests ASAP please...

-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.


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