[ale] perl regex.... again

[Geoffrey Myers]

Watson, Keith wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>> Geoffrey Myers
>> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 12:59
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> Subject: [ale] perl regex.... again
>>
>> I'll try this again as I didn't get any bites before.  I'm trying to
>> come up with a perl regex that will identify a line of data that has any
>> character outside of alphanumeric, punctuation, spaces, tabs.
>>
>> Can't seem to formulate.
>>
>> anyone?
>>
>> --
>> Until later, Geoffrey
> 
> Geoffrey,
> 
> if ($line =~ /[^\040-\176]/) {
> 
>    print ("Line contains out of range characters\n");
> 
> }
> 
> keith

Does not pick up an string that contains an embedded character outside 
the range.  Say:

This is a bad ^G line.


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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