[TriLUG] Perl and the M-= (1/2) character

[Andrew Perrin]

Sorry if my perl is too rusty, but....

I'm using perl to process some data files, which include addresses that 
sometimes have a 1/2 symbol in them. The symbol appears to be M-= (i.e., 
that's what cat -t shows, and when I hit alt-= that's what I get on the 
screen).  However, my perl script is barfing on the symbols; the problem 
appears to be with the Text_CSV::XS module, which fails to parse any line 
containing the character. Any thoughts?

Andy


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