[Israel.pm] 8-bit characters recognition

[Roman M. Parparov]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 03:23:53PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Roman M. Parparov wrote:
> 
> > What would be a simple way to recognize if an 8-bit (ord($c) > 0x7f)
> > character is present in a string?
> 
> 1. Don't use pattern matching.
> 2. If speed is your utmost considration, write a C function to do the job
>    and invoke it from your Perl script.
>    IIRC, 80x86 machine language supports this kind of operation by
>    prefixing an instruction with the rep prefix.
> 3. If speed is not that big concern, implement a loop which scans the
>    string character by character, and compare ord(char)&0x80 to zero.
> 
Thanks for the proposal, but from the whole application point of view
I'd rather examine the entire string (some way to implement solution
#1)....

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