From: pjb@... (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
Date: 2009-04-22T05:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: special characters screwing up string operations

Aryk Grosz <tennisbum2002@hotmail.com> writes:

> Im doing some manipulation of strings, and there are some characters
> that Ruby just really does not like:
>
> “ –
>
> If you try to paste these into a Ruby console the cursor will jump
> around. Likewise, if you put it in a string and try to do text[5,4] it
> will give you the wrong piece of the text.
>
> How do I get around this. Is there some special escape command or do I
> just have to gsub these characters?

Perhaps you could try a real programming language?

C/USER[1]> (length "abcde\“\ \–fgh")
11
C/USER[2]> (subseq "abcde\“\ \–fgh" 5 6)
"“"
C/USER[3]> (subseq "abcde\“\ \–fgh" 5 9)
"“ –f"
C/USER[4]> (map 'list (function char-code) "abcde“ –fgh")
(97 98 99 100 101 8220 32 8211 102 103 104)

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