[olug] Regex question

[Tim & Alethea Larson]

Matthew Anderson wrote:
> I don't know the answer to your regex issue, but for the problem you  
> have, I'm not sure that you need regular expressions.
> 
> I think it would be faster and easier just to walk through the  
> characters in the file, and examine them one by one.  You swap a  
> character out for something else if the character matches an item in  
> your translation table.  Something like this?

I was kind of thinking that, too.

I know that Lynx has a decent 7-bit representation table for Unicode 
character mapping, if you ever have a need to get into that range.  I've 
contributed to it a couple times.

Tim
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