PERL Beginners - finding the right non printing non word character

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finding the right non printing non word character

Angie Ahl

2005-06-08, 8:56 pm

Hi guys

I'm trying to find a character for use in a regex pattern that is non
printing and non word.

I've been using \0 and \xFF as a means of marking up and splitting a
string but have just found out that the regex engine thinks that they
are word characters, as in being matched by \w

I need a character that people won't type, that isn't a word character.

Any ideas.

TIA

Angie

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