Re: Problems converting Latin1 to HTML

Abigail (abigail@tungsten.gn.iaf.nl)
Wed, 20 Dec 1995 06:02:50 +0100 (MET)

You, Philippe-Andre Prindeville wrote:
++
++ Hi.
++
++ I'm using perl 4.0pl36 (on an HP-UX 9.01 system) and perl 5.000
++ on a SunOS 4.1.3_U1 system, and I'm trying to convert accented (French)
++ text to HTML via:
++
++ $line =~ s/[&<>\200-\377]/sprintf("&#%d;", unpack("C", $1))/ge;
++
++ thinking this would convert all high-bit set characters to their
++ decimal equivalent as "&#nn;" but this isn't turning out as
++ expected.
++
++ I'm wondering about this. Probably something stupid, but....
++ Anyone have a quick fix?

The problem is that $1 doesn't match anything... Use either:
$line =~ s/([&<>\200-\377])/sprintf("&#%d;", unpack("C", $1))/ge;
or:
$line =~ s/[&<>\200-\377]/sprintf("&#%d;", unpack("C", $&))/ge;

This should work too:
$line =~ s/[&<>\200-\377]/sprintf("&#%d;", ord ($&))/ge;

Abigail