Re: [MLUG] simple perl one-liner question

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Mike Miller wrote:

> All the Spanish/Portuguese special characters are translated like I 
> described earlier (e.g., \361 instead of ñ), but this does it right:
>
> tree | perl -pe 's/\\([0-9]{3})/chr(oct($1))/eg' | less -r
>
> If you don't have it already, you can get tree here:
>
> http://directory.fsf.org/all/tree.html

I just looked back at these old messages.  The funny thing is that the 
excellent tree program, I now know, has a -N switch that makes the 
characters come out fine, so I now do this to get what I want:

tree -N | less -r

By the way, Mike808 later suggested, correctly, that [0-7] would be even 
better than [0-9] because these were octal numbers.

I'm looking back at the old messages because I'm interested in finding a 
simple way to convert letters A-Z to numbers 1-26.  That has to be really 
easy!

Mike

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