Hello everyone. I am having a problem with the character Ĉ in the string Ĉon Flux not being captured by the first_alpha subroutine below. A space character is being returned. This problem arose when I recently re-encoded my files from Windows-1252 to UTF-8. I am baffled. As always, I appreciate all the help I get.
sub first_alpha {
my $alpha = shift;
$alpha = ucfirst($alpha) if $alpha =~ /^\l./;
$alpha =~ s/\s*\b(A|a|An|an|The|the)(_|\s)//xi;
if ($alpha =~ /^\d/) {
$alpha = '#';
}
elsif ($alpha !~ /^\p{uppercase}/) {
$alpha = '!';
}
else {
$alpha =~ s/^(.)(\w|\W)+/$1/;
}
return $alpha;
}
Even substr('Ĉon Flux', 0, 1) returns a space character.
The weird thing that I found is that the string Ĉon Flux is returned when I ran the data from the file through my make_hash subroutine then ran that hash through my alpha_hash subroutine, both in the same module as first_alpha. (You can see the full module here.)
sub make_hash {
my %opt = @_;
my $file = $opt{'file'} && ref($opt{'file'}) eq 'ARRAY' ? data_file(
+@{$opt{'file'}}) : $opt{'file'};
open(my $fh, '<', $file) || die "Can not open $file $!";
my @headings = $opt{'headings'} ? @{$opt{'headings'}} : ('heading');
my %hash;
while (my $line = <$fh>) {
chomp $line;
die "This file is not for Util::Data! Stopped $!" if $line =~ /no
+Util::Data/i;
my @values = split(/\|/,$line);
my $key = scalar @headings > 1 ? $values[0] : shift @values;
my $n = 0;
for my $r_heading (@headings) {
if (defined($values[$n]) && length($values[$n]) > 0) {
my $split = $r_heading =~ /\+$/ ? 1 : 0;
(my $heading = $r_heading) =~ s/\+$//;
my $value = $split == 1 ? [map { $_ =~ s/^ //; $_ } split(/;/,
+$values[$n])] : $values[$n];
if (scalar @headings > 1) {
$hash{$key}{$heading} = $value;
}
else {
$hash{$key} = $value;
}
}
$n++;
}
}
return \%hash;
}
sub alpha_hash {
my ($org_list, $opt) = @_;
my %alpha_hash;
for my $org_value (keys %{$org_list}) {
my $alpha = !$opt->{article} ? first_alpha($org_value) : substr($o
+rg_value, 0, 1);
$alpha_hash{$alpha}{$org_value} = $org_list->{$org_value};
}
return \%alpha_hash;
}
The following is truncated output from alpha_hash.
'A' => [
'Alphas',
'Arrow',
'Ash vs. Evil Dead'
],
'�' => [ # in my terminal, there is just a blank spac
+e between the quotes.
'Ĉon Flux (1991)'
],
'I' => [
'I Spy (1965)',
'The Invisible Man (2000)'
],
As I said earlier, any and all help is appreciated.
No matter how hysterical I get, my problems are not time sensitive. So, relax, have a cookie and a very nice day!
Lady Aleena
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