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NAME

Char::UTF2 - Source code filter to escape UTF-2 script

Install and Usage

There are two steps there:

  • You'll have to download Char/UTF2.pm and Char/Eutf2.pm and put it in your perl lib directory.

  • You'll need to write "use Char::UTF2;" at head of the script.

SYNOPSIS

  use Char::UTF2;
  use Char::UTF2 ver.sion;             --- require minimum version
  use Char::UTF2 ver.sion.0;           --- expects version (match or die)
  use Char::UTF2 qw(ord reverse getc); --- demand enhanced feature of ord, reverse, and getc
  use Char::UTF2 ver.sion qw(ord reverse getc);
  use Char::UTF2 ver.sion.0 qw(ord reverse getc);

  # "no Char::UTF2;" not supported

  or

  $ perl Char/UTF2.pm UTF-2_script.pl > Escaped_script.pl.e

  then

  $ perl Escaped_script.pl.e

  UTF-2_script.pl  --- script written in UTF-2
  Escaped_script.pl.e --- escaped script

  functions:
    Char::UTF2::ord(...);
    Char::UTF2::reverse(...);
    Char::UTF2::getc(...);
    Char::UTF2::length(...);
    Char::UTF2::substr(...);
    Char::UTF2::index(...);
    Char::UTF2::rindex(...);
    <*>
    glob(...);
    CORE::chop(...);
    CORE::ord(...);
    CORE::reverse(...);
    CORE::getc(...);
    CORE::index(...);
    CORE::rindex(...);

  emulate Perl5.6 on perl5.00503
    use warnings;
    use warnings::register;

  emulate Perl5.16
    use feature qw(fc);

  dummy functions:
    utf8::upgrade(...);
    utf8::downgrade(...);
    utf8::encode(...);
    utf8::decode(...);
    utf8::is_utf8(...);
    utf8::valid(...);
    bytes::chr(...);
    bytes::index(...);
    bytes::length(...);
    bytes::ord(...);
    bytes::rindex(...);
    bytes::substr(...);

ABSTRACT

Char::UTF2 software is "middleware" between perl interpreter and your Perl script written by UTF-2.

Perl is optimized for problems which are about 90% working with text and about 10% everything else. But this "text" means US-ASCII text, and popular UTF-2 is contained in "everything else."

Please be not disappointed.

The string of Perl3 or later can treat binary data. That is, the string of Perl3 or later can treat UTF-2.

Perl is designed to make the easy jobs easy, without making the hard jobs impossible. Char::UTF2 software is Perl program designed to make the "easy jobs easy".

By "use Char::UTF2;", it automatically interpret your script as UTF-2. The various functions of perl including a regular expression can treat UTF-2 now. The function length treats length per byte. This software does not use UTF8 flag.

Yet Another Future Of

JPerl is very useful software. -- Oops, note, this "JPerl" means "Japanized Perl" or "Japanese Perl". Therefore, it is unrelated to JPerl of the following.

 JPerl is an implementation of Perl written in Java.
 http://www.javainc.com/projects/jperl/
 
 jPerl - Perl on the JVM
 http://www.dzone.com/links/175948.html
 
 Jamie's PERL scripts for bioinformatics
 http://code.google.com/p/jperl/
 
 jperl (Jonathan Perl)
 https://github.com/jperl

Now, the last version of JPerl is 5.005_04 and is not maintained now.

Japanization modifier WATANABE Hirofumi said,

  "Because WATANABE am tired I give over maintaing JPerl."

at Slide #15: "The future of JPerl" of

ftp://ftp.oreilly.co.jp/pcjp98/watanabe/jperlconf.ppt

in The Perl Confernce Japan 1998.

When I heard it, I thought that someone excluding me would maintain JPerl. And I slept every night hanging a sock. Night and day, I kept having hope. After 10 years, I noticed that white beard exists in the sock :-)

This software is a source code filter to escape Perl script encoded by UTF-2 given from STDIN or command line parameter. The character code is never converted by escaping the script. Neither the value of the character nor the length of the character string change even if it escapes.

I learned the following things from the successful software.

  • Upper Compatibility like Perl4 to Perl5

  • Maximum Portability like jcode.pl

  • Handles Raw UTF-2, Doesn't use UTF8 flag like JPerl

  • Remains One Interpreter like Encode module

  • Code Set Independent like Ruby

  • There's more than one way to do it like Perl itself

I am excited about this software and its future --- I hope you are too.

JRE: JPerl Runtime Environment

  +---------------------------------------+
  |        JPerl Application Script       | Your Script
  +---------------------------------------+
  |  Source Code Filter, Runtime Routine  | ex. Char/UTF2.pm, Char/Eutf2.pm
  +---------------------------------------+
  |          PVM 5.00503 or later         | ex. perl 5.00503
  +---------------------------------------+

A Perl Virtual Machine (PVM) enables a set of computer software programs and data structures to use a virtual machine model for the execution of other computer programs and scripts. The model used by a PVM accepts a form of computer intermediate language commonly referred to as Perl byteorientedcode. This language conceptually represents the instruction set of a byte-oriented, capability architecture.

Basic Idea of Source Code Filter

I discovered this mail again recently.

[Tokyo.pm] jus Benkyoukai

http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/tokyo-pm/1999-September/001854.html

save as: SJIS.pm

  package SJIS;
  use Filter::Util::Call;
  sub multibyte_filter {
      my $status;
      if (($status = filter_read()) > 0 ) {
          s/([\x81-\x9f\xe0-\xef])([\x40-\x7e\x80-\xfc])/
              sprintf("\\x%02x\\x%02x",ord($1),ord($2))
          /eg;
      }
      $status;
  }
  sub import {
      filter_add(\&multibyte_filter);
  }
  1;

I am glad that I could confirm my idea is not so wrong.

Command-line Wildcard Expansion on DOS-like Systems

The default command shells on DOS-like systems (COMMAND.COM or cmd.exe) do not expand wildcard arguments supplied to programs. Instead, import() of Char/Eutf2.pm works well.

   in Char/Eutf2.pm
   #
   # @ARGV wildcard globbing
   #
   sub import() {

       if ($^O =~ /\A (?: MSWin32 | NetWare | symbian | dos ) \z/oxms) {
           my @argv = ();
           for (@ARGV) {

               # has space
               if (/\A (?:$q_char)*? [ ] /oxms) {
                   if (my @glob = Char::Eutf2::glob(qq{"$_"})) {
                       push @argv, @glob;
                   }
                   else {
                       push @argv, $_;
                   }
               }

               # has wildcard metachar
               elsif (/\A (?:$q_char)*? [*?] /oxms) {
                   if (my @glob = Char::Eutf2::glob($_)) {
                       push @argv, @glob;
                   }
                   else {
                       push @argv, $_;
                   }
               }

               # no wildcard globbing
               else {
                   push @argv, $_;
               }
           }
           @ARGV = @argv;
       }
   }

Software Composition

   Char/UTF2.pm               --- source code filter to escape UTF-2
   Char/Eutf2.pm              --- run-time routines for Char/UTF2.pm
   perl5.bat             --- find and run perl5    without %PATH% settings
   perl55.bat            --- find and run perl5.5  without %PATH% settings
   perl56.bat            --- find and run perl5.6  without %PATH% settings
   perl58.bat            --- find and run perl5.8  without %PATH% settings
   perl510.bat           --- find and run perl5.10 without %PATH% settings
   perl512.bat           --- find and run perl5.12 without %PATH% settings
   perl514.bat           --- find and run perl5.14 without %PATH% settings
   perl516.bat           --- find and run perl5.16 without %PATH% settings
   perl64.bat            --- find and run perl64   without %PATH% settings
   perl64512.bat         --- find and run perl5.12 (x64) without %PATH% settings
   perl64514.bat         --- find and run perl5.14 (x64) without %PATH% settings
   perl64516.bat         --- find and run perl5.16 (x64) without %PATH% settings
   aperl58.bat           --- find and run ActivePerl 5.8  without %PATH% settings
   aperl510.bat          --- find and run ActivePerl 5.10 without %PATH% settings
   aperl512.bat          --- find and run ActivePerl 5.12 without %PATH% settings
   aperl514.bat          --- find and run ActivePerl 5.14 without %PATH% settings
   aperl516.bat          --- find and run ActivePerl 5.16 without %PATH% settings
   aperl64512.bat        --- find and run ActivePerl 5.12 (x64) without %PATH% settings
   aperl64514.bat        --- find and run ActivePerl 5.14 (x64) without %PATH% settings
   aperl64516.bat        --- find and run ActivePerl 5.16 (x64) without %PATH% settings
   sperl58.bat           --- find and run Strawberry Perl 5.8  without %PATH% settings
   sperl510.bat          --- find and run Strawberry Perl 5.10 without %PATH% settings
   sperl512.bat          --- find and run Strawberry Perl 5.12 without %PATH% settings
   sperl514.bat          --- find and run Strawberry Perl 5.14 without %PATH% settings
   sperl516.bat          --- find and run Strawberry Perl 5.16 without %PATH% settings
   sperl64512.bat        --- find and run Strawberry Perl 5.12 (x64) without %PATH% settings
   sperl64514.bat        --- find and run Strawberry Perl 5.14 (x64) without %PATH% settings
   sperl64516.bat        --- find and run Strawberry Perl 5.16 (x64) without %PATH% settings
   strict.pm_            --- dummy strict.pm
   warnings.pm_          --- poor warnings.pm
   warnings/register.pm_ --- poor warnings/register.pm
   feature.pm_           --- dummy feature.pm

Upper Compatibility by Escaping

This software adds the function by 'Escaping' it always, and nothing of the past is broken. Therefore, 'Possible job' never becomes 'Impossible job'. This approach is effective in the field where the retreat is never permitted. Modern Perl/perl can not always solve the problem. Often, it means an incompatible upgrade part to traditional Perl should be rewound.

Escaping Your Script (You do)

You need write 'use Char::UTF2;' in your script.

  ---------------------------------
  Before      You do
  ---------------------------------
  (nothing)   use Char::UTF2;
  ---------------------------------

Multiple-Octet Anchoring of Regular Expression (Char/UTF2.pm provides)

Char/UTF2.pm applies multiple-octet anchoring at beginning of regular expression.

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Before                  After
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  m/regexp/               m/${Char::Eutf2::anchor}(?:regexp).../
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Multiple-Octet Character Regular Expression (Char/UTF2.pm provides)

Char/UTF2.pm clusters multiple-octet character with quantifier, makes cluster from multiple-octet custom character classes. And makes multiple-octet version metasymbol from classic Perl character class shortcuts and POSIX-style character classes.

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Before                  After
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  m/...MULTIOCT+.../      m/...(?:MULTIOCT)+.../
  m/...[AN-EM].../        m/...(?:A[N-Z]|[B-D][A-Z]|E[A-M]).../
  m/...\D.../             m/...(?:${Char::Eutf2::eD}).../
  m/...[[:^digit:]].../   m/...(?:${Char::Eutf2::not_digit}).../
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Calling 'Char::Eutf2::ignorecase()' (Char/UTF2.pm provides)

Char/UTF2.pm applies calling 'Char::Eutf2::ignorecase()' instead of /i modifier.

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Before                  After
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  m/...$var.../i          m/...@{[Char::Eutf2::ignorecase($var)]}.../
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Character-Oriented Regular Expression

Regular expression works as character-oriented that has no /b modifier.

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Before                  After
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  /regexp/                /ditto$Char::Eutf2::matched/
  m/regexp/               m/ditto$Char::Eutf2::matched/
  ?regexp?                m?ditto$Char::Eutf2::matched?
  m?regexp?               m?ditto$Char::Eutf2::matched?
 
  $_ =~                   ($_ =~ m/ditto$Char::Eutf2::matched/) ?
  s/regexp/replacement/   eval{ Char::Eutf2::s_matched(); local $^W=0; my $__r=qq/replacement/; $_="${1}$__r$'"; 1 } :
                          undef
 
  $_ !~                   ($_ !~ m/ditto$Char::Eutf2::matched/) ?
  s/regexp/replacement/   1 :
                          eval{ Char::Eutf2::s_matched(); local $^W=0; my $__r=qq/replacement/; $_="${1}$__r$'"; undef }
 
  split(/regexp/)         Char::Eutf2::split(qr/regexp/)
  split(m/regexp/)        Char::Eutf2::split(qr/regexp/)
  split(qr/regexp/)       Char::Eutf2::split(qr/regexp/)
  qr/regexp/              qr/ditto$Char::Eutf2::matched/
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Byte-Oriented Regular Expression

Regular expression works as byte-oriented that has /b modifier.

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Before                  After
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  /regexp/b               /(?:regexp)$Char::Eutf2::matched/
  m/regexp/b              m/(?:regexp)$Char::Eutf2::matched/
  ?regexp?b               m?regexp$Char::Eutf2::matched?
  m?regexp?b              m?regexp$Char::Eutf2::matched?
 
  $_ =~                   ($_ =~ m/(\G[\x00-\xFF]*?)(?:regexp)$Char::Eutf2::matched/) ?
  s/regexp/replacement/b  eval{ Char::Eutf2::s_matched(); local $^W=0; my $__r=qq/replacement/; $_="${1}$__r$'"; 1 } :
                          undef
 
  $_ !~                   ($_ !~ m/(\G[\x00-\xFF]*?)(?:regexp)$Char::Eutf2::matched/) ?
  s/regexp/replacement/b  1 :
                          eval{ Char::Eutf2::s_matched(); local $^W=0; my $__r=qq/replacement/; $_="${1}$__r$'"; undef }
 
  split(/regexp/b)        split(qr/regexp/)
  split(m/regexp/b)       split(qr/regexp/)
  split(qr/regexp/b)      split(qr/regexp/)
  qr/regexp/b             qr/(?:regexp)$Char::Eutf2::matched/
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Escaping Character Classes (Char/Eutf2.pm provides)

The character classes are redefined as follows to backward compatibility.

  ---------------------------------------------------------------
  Before        After
  ---------------------------------------------------------------
   .            ${Char::Eutf2::dot}
                ${Char::Eutf2::dot_s}    (/s modifier)
  \d            [0-9]
  \s            [\x09\x0A\x0C\x0D\x20]
  \w            [0-9A-Z_a-z]
  \D            ${Char::Eutf2::eD}
  \S            ${Char::Eutf2::eS}
  \W            ${Char::Eutf2::eW}
  \h            [\x09\x20]
  \v            [\x0A\x0B\x0C\x0D]
  \H            ${Char::Eutf2::eH}
  \V            ${Char::Eutf2::eV}
  \C            [\x00-\xFF]
  \X            X (so, just 'X')
  \R            ${Char::Eutf2::eR}
  \N            ${Char::Eutf2::eN}
  ---------------------------------------------------------------

Also POSIX-style character classes.

  ---------------------------------------------------------------
  Before        After
  ---------------------------------------------------------------
  [:alnum:]     [\x30-\x39\x41-\x5A\x61-\x7A]
  [:alpha:]     [\x41-\x5A\x61-\x7A]
  [:ascii:]     [\x00-\x7F]
  [:blank:]     [\x09\x20]
  [:cntrl:]     [\x00-\x1F\x7F]
  [:digit:]     [\x30-\x39]
  [:graph:]     [\x21-\x7F]
  [:lower:]     [\x61-\x7A]
                [\x41-\x5A\x61-\x7A]     (/i modifier)
  [:print:]     [\x20-\x7F]
  [:punct:]     [\x21-\x2F\x3A-\x3F\x40\x5B-\x5F\x60\x7B-\x7E]
  [:space:]     [\x09\x0A\x0B\x0C\x0D\x20]
  [:upper:]     [\x41-\x5A]
                [\x41-\x5A\x61-\x7A]     (/i modifier)
  [:word:]      [\x30-\x39\x41-\x5A\x5F\x61-\x7A]
  [:xdigit:]    [\x30-\x39\x41-\x46\x61-\x66]
  [:^alnum:]    ${Char::Eutf2::not_alnum}
  [:^alpha:]    ${Char::Eutf2::not_alpha}
  [:^ascii:]    ${Char::Eutf2::not_ascii}
  [:^blank:]    ${Char::Eutf2::not_blank}
  [:^cntrl:]    ${Char::Eutf2::not_cntrl}
  [:^digit:]    ${Char::Eutf2::not_digit}
  [:^graph:]    ${Char::Eutf2::not_graph}
  [:^lower:]    ${Char::Eutf2::not_lower}
                ${Char::Eutf2::not_lower_i}    (/i modifier)
  [:^print:]    ${Char::Eutf2::not_print}
  [:^punct:]    ${Char::Eutf2::not_punct}
  [:^space:]    ${Char::Eutf2::not_space}
  [:^upper:]    ${Char::Eutf2::not_upper}
                ${Char::Eutf2::not_upper_i}    (/i modifier)
  [:^word:]     ${Char::Eutf2::not_word}
  [:^xdigit:]   ${Char::Eutf2::not_xdigit}
  ---------------------------------------------------------------

Also \b and \B are redefined as follows to backward compatibility.

  ---------------------------------------------------------------
  Before      After
  ---------------------------------------------------------------
  \b          ${Char::Eutf2::eb}
  \B          ${Char::Eutf2::eB}
  ---------------------------------------------------------------

Definitions in Char/Eutf2.pm.

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  After                    Definition
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  ${Char::Eutf2::anchor}         qr{\G(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF])*?}
  ${Char::Eutf2::dot}            qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x0A])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::dot_s}          qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::eD}             qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF0-9])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::eS}             qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x09\x0A\x0C\x0D\x20])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::eW}             qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF0-9A-Z_a-z])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::eH}             qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x09\x20])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::eV}             qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x0A\x0B\x0C\x0D])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::eR}             qr{(?:\x0D\x0A|[\x0A\x0D])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::eN}             qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x0A])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::not_alnum}      qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x30-\x39\x41-\x5A\x61-\x7A])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::not_alpha}      qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x41-\x5A\x61-\x7A])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::not_ascii}      qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x00-\x7F])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::not_blank}      qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x09\x20])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::not_cntrl}      qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x00-\x1F\x7F])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::not_digit}      qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x30-\x39])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::not_graph}      qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x21-\x7F])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::not_lower}      qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x61-\x7A])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::not_lower_i}    qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::not_print}      qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x20-\x7F])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::not_punct}      qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x21-\x2F\x3A-\x3F\x40\x5B-\x5F\x60\x7B-\x7E])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::not_space}      qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x09\x0A\x0B\x0C\x0D\x20])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::not_upper}      qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x41-\x5A])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::not_upper_i}    qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::not_word}       qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x30-\x39\x41-\x5A\x5F\x61-\x7A])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::not_xdigit}     qr{(?:(?:[\xC2-\xDF]|[\xE0-\xE0][\xA0-\xBF]|[\xE1-\xEC][\x80-\xBF]|[\xED-\xED][\x80-\x9F]|[\xEE-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF0-\xF0][\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xF4-\xF4][\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF])[\x00-\xFF]|[^\x80-\xFF\x30-\x39\x41-\x46\x61-\x66])}
  ${Char::Eutf2::eb}             qr{(?:\A(?=[0-9A-Z_a-z])|(?<=[\x00-\x2F\x40\x5B-\x5E\x60\x7B-\xFF])(?=[0-9A-Z_a-z])|(?<=[0-9A-Z_a-z])(?=[\x00-\x2F\x40\x5B-\x5E\x60\x7B-\xFF]|\z))}
  ${Char::Eutf2::eB}             qr{(?:(?<=[0-9A-Z_a-z])(?=[0-9A-Z_a-z])|(?<=[\x00-\x2F\x40\x5B-\x5E\x60\x7B-\xFF])(?=[\x00-\x2F\x40\x5B-\x5E\x60\x7B-\xFF]))}
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Un-Escaping \ of \N, \p, \P and \X (Char/UTF2.pm provides)

Char/UTF2.pm removes '\' at head of alphanumeric regexp metasymbols \N, \p, \P and \X. By this method, you can avoid the trap of the abstraction.

See also, Deprecate literal unescaped "{" in regexes. http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/2a53d3314d380af5ab5283758219417c6dfa36e9

  ------------------------------------
  Before           After
  ------------------------------------
  \N{CHARNAME}     N\{CHARNAME}
  \p{L}            p\{L}
  \p{^L}           p\{^L}
  \p{\^L}          p\{\^L}
  \pL              pL
  \P{L}            P\{L}
  \P{^L}           P\{^L}
  \P{\^L}          P\{\^L}
  \PL              PL
  \X               X
  ------------------------------------

Escaping Built-in Functions (Char/UTF2.pm and Char/Eutf2.pm provide)

Insert 'Char::Eutf2::' at head of function name. Char/Eutf2.pm provides your script Char::Eutf2::* functions.

  -------------------------------------------
  Before      After            Works as
  -------------------------------------------
  length      length           Byte
  substr      substr           Byte
  pos         pos              Byte
  split       Char::Eutf2::split     Character
  tr///       Char::Eutf2::tr        Character
  tr///b      tr///            Byte
  tr///B      tr///            Byte
  y///        Char::Eutf2::tr        Character
  y///b       tr///            Byte
  y///B       tr///            Byte
  chop        Char::Eutf2::chop      Character
  index       Char::Eutf2::index     Character
  rindex      Char::Eutf2::rindex    Character
  lc          Char::Eutf2::lc        Character
  lcfirst     Char::Eutf2::lcfirst   Character
  uc          Char::Eutf2::uc        Character
  ucfirst     Char::Eutf2::ucfirst   Character
  fc          Char::Eutf2::fc        Character
  chr         Char::Eutf2::chr       Character
  glob        Char::Eutf2::glob      Character
  -------------------------------------------

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Before                   After
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  use Perl::Module;        BEGIN { require 'Perl/Module.pm'; Perl::Module->import() if Perl::Module->can('import'); }
  use Perl::Module @list;  BEGIN { require 'Perl/Module.pm'; Perl::Module->import(@list) if Perl::Module->can('import'); }
  use Perl::Module ();     BEGIN { require 'Perl/Module.pm'; }
  no Perl::Module;         BEGIN { require 'Perl/Module.pm'; Perl::Module->unimport() if Perl::Module->can('unimport'); }
  no Perl::Module @list;   BEGIN { require 'Perl/Module.pm'; Perl::Module->unimport(@list) if Perl::Module->can('unimport'); }
  no Perl::Module ();      BEGIN { require 'Perl/Module.pm'; }
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Escaping Function Name (You do)

You need write 'Char::UTF2::' at head of function name when you want character- oriented function. See 'Character-Oriented Functions'.

  --------------------------------------------------------
  Function   Character-Oriented   Description
  --------------------------------------------------------
  ord        Char::UTF2::ord
  reverse    Char::UTF2::reverse
  getc       Char::UTF2::getc
  length     Char::UTF2::length
  substr     Char::UTF2::substr
  index      Char::UTF2::index          See 'About Indexes'
  rindex     Char::UTF2::rindex         See 'About Rindexes'
  --------------------------------------------------------

  About Indexes
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Function       Works as    Returns as   Description
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  index          Character   Byte         JPerl semantics (most useful)
  (same as Char::Eutf2::index)
  Char::UTF2::index    Character   Character    Character-oriented semantics
  CORE::index    Byte        Byte         Byte-oriented semantics
  (nothing)      Byte        Character    (most useless)
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------

  About Rindexes
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Function       Works as    Returns as   Description
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  rindex         Character   Byte         JPerl semantics (most useful)
  (same as Char::Eutf2::rindex)
  Char::UTF2::rindex   Character   Character    Character-oriented semantics
  CORE::rindex   Byte        Byte         Byte-oriented semantics
  (nothing)      Byte        Character    (most useless)
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------

Character-Oriented Functions

  • Ordinal Value of Character

      $ord = Char::UTF2::ord($string);
    
      This function returns the numeric value (ASCII or UTF-2 character) of the
      first character of $string, not Unicode. If $string is omitted, it uses $_.
      The return value is always unsigned.
    
      If you import ord "use Char::UTF2 qw(ord);", ord of your script will be rewritten in
      Char::UTF2::ord. Char::UTF2::ord is not compatible with ord of JPerl.
    
      Even if you do not know this function, there is no problem. This function can
      be created with a unpack function as before.
  • Reverse List or String

      @reverse = Char::UTF2::reverse(@list);
      $reverse = Char::UTF2::reverse(@list);
    
      In list context, this function returns a list value consisting of the elements of
      @list in the opposite order.
    
      In scalar context, the function concatenates all the elements of @list and then
      returns the reverse of that resulting string, character by character.
    
      If you import reverse "use Char::UTF2 qw(reverse);", reverse of your script will be
      rewritten in Char::UTF2::reverse. Char::UTF2::reverse is not compatible with reverse of
      JPerl.
    
      Even if you do not know this function, there is no problem. This function can
      be created with
    
      $rev = join('', reverse(split(//, $jstring)));
    
      as before.
  • Returns Next Character

      $getc = Char::UTF2::getc(FILEHANDLE);
      $getc = Char::UTF2::getc($filehandle);
      $getc = Char::UTF2::getc;
    
      This function returns the next character from the input file attached to FILEHANDLE.
      It returns undef at end-of-file, or if an I/O error was encountered. If FILEHANDLE
      is omitted, the function reads from STDIN.
    
      This function is somewhat slow, but it's occasionally useful for single-character
      input from the keyboard -- provided you manage to get your keyboard input
      unbuffered. This function requests unbuffered input from the standard I/O library.
      Unfortunately, the standard I/O library is not so standard as to provide a portable
      way to tell the underlying operating system to supply unbuffered keyboard input to
      the standard I/O system. To do that, you have to be slightly more clever, and in
      an operating-system-dependent fashion. Under Unix you might say this:
    
      if ($BSD_STYLE) {
          system "stty cbreak </dev/tty >/dev/tty 2>&1";
      }
      else {
          system "stty", "-icanon", "eol", "\001";
      }
    
      $key = Char::UTF2::getc;
    
      if ($BSD_STYLE) {
          system "stty -cbreak </dev/tty >/dev/tty 2>&1";
      }
      else {
          system "stty", "icanon", "eol", "^@"; # ASCII NUL
      }
      print "\n";
    
      This code puts the next character typed on the terminal in the string $key. If your
      stty program has options like cbreak, you'll need to use the code where $BSD_STYLE
      is true. Otherwise, you'll need to use the code where it is false.
    
      If you import getc "use Char::UTF2 qw(getc);", getc of your script will be rewritten in
      Char::UTF2::getc. Char::UTF2::getc is not compatible with getc of JPerl.
    
      Even if you do not know this function, there is no problem. This function can
      be created with CORE::getc as before.
  • Length by UTF-2 Character

      $length = Char::UTF2::length($string);
      $length = Char::UTF2::length();
    
      This function returns the length in characters (programmer-visible characters) of
      the scalar value $string. If $string is omitted, it returns the Char::UTF2::length of
      $_.
    
      Do not try to use Char::UTF2::length to find the size of an array or hash. Use scalar
      @array for the size of an array, and scalar keys %hash for the number of key/value
      pairs in a hash. (The scalar is typically omitted when redundant.)
    
      To find the length of a string in bytes rather than characters, say simply:
    
      $bytes = length($string);
    
      Even if you do not know this function, there is no problem. This function can
      be created with
    
      $len = split(//, $jstring);
    
      as before.
  • Substr by UTF-2 Character

      $substr = Char::UTF2::substr($string,$offset,$length,$replacement);
      $substr = Char::UTF2::substr($string,$offset,$length);
      $substr = Char::UTF2::substr($string,$offset);
    
      This function extracts a substring out of the string given by $string and returns
      it. The substring is extracted starting at $offset characters from the front of
      the string.
      If $offset is negative, the substring starts that far from the end of the string
      instead. If $length is omitted, everything to the end of the string is returned.
      If $length is negative, the length is calculated to leave that many characters off
      the end of the string. Otherwise, $length indicates the length of the substring to
      extract, which is sort of what you'd expect.
    
      For bytes, use the substr from built-in Perl functions.
    
      An alternative to using Char::UTF2::substr as an lvalue is to specify the $replacement
      string as the fourth argument. This lets you replace parts of the $string and return
      what was there before in one operation, just as you can with splice. The next
      example also replaces the last character of $var with "Curly" and puts that replaced
      character into $oldstr: 
    
      $oldstr = Char::UTF2::substr($var, -1, 1, "Curly");
    
      To prepend the string "Larry" to the current value of $var, use:
    
      Char::UTF2::substr($var, 0, 0, "Larry");
    
      To instead replace the first character of $var with "Moe", use:
    
      Char::UTF2::substr($var, 0, 1, "Moe");
    
      And, finally, to replace the last character of $var with "Curly", use:
    
      Char::UTF2::substr($var, -1, 1, "Curly");
  • Index by UTF-2 Character

      $index = Char::UTF2::index($string,$substring,$offset);
      $index = Char::UTF2::index($string,$substring);
    
      This function searches for one string within another. It returns the character
      position of the first occurrence of $substring in $string. The $offset, if
      specified, says how many characters from the start to skip before beginning to
      look. Positions are based at 0. If the substring is not found, the function
      returns one less than the base, ordinarily -1. To work your way through a string,
      you might say:
    
      $pos = -1;
      while (($pos = Char::UTF2::index($string, $lookfor, $pos)) > -1) {
          print "Found at $pos\n";
          $pos++;
      }
    
      This function is realizable with a regular expression as before. There is no
      problem even if you do not know this function.
  • Rindex by UTF-2 Character

      $rindex = Char::UTF2::rindex($string,$substring,$offset);
      $rindex = Char::UTF2::rindex($string,$substring);
    
      This function works just like Char::UTF2::index except that it returns the character
      position of the last occurrence of $substring in $string (a reverse Char::UTF2::index).
      The function returns -1 if $substring is not found. $offset, if specified, is
      the rightmost character position that may be returned. To work your way through
      a string backward, say:
    
      $pos = Char::UTF2::length($string);
      while (($pos = Char::UTF2::rindex($string, $lookfor, $pos)) >= 0) {
          print "Found at $pos\n";
          $pos--;
      }
    
      This function is realizable with a regular expression as before. There is no
      problem even if you do not know this function.
  • Filename Globbing

      @glob = glob($expr);
      $glob = glob($expr);
      @glob = glob;
      $glob = glob;
      @glob = <*>;
      $glob = <*>;
    
      Performs filename expansion (globbing) on $expr, returning the next successive
      name on each call. If $expr is omitted, $_ is globbed instead.
    
      This operator is implemented via the Char::Eutf2::glob() function. See Char::Eutf2::glob of
      Char/Eutf2.pm for details.

Byte-Oriented Functions

  • Chop Byte String

      $byte = CORE::chop($string);
      $byte = CORE::chop(@list);
      $byte = CORE::chop;
    
      This function chops off the last byte of a string variable and returns the
      byte chopped. The CORE::chop operator is used primarily to remove the newline
      from the end of an input record, and is more efficient than using a
      substitution (s/\n$//). If that's all you're doing, then it would be safer to
      use chomp, since CORE::chop always shortens the string no matter what's there,
      and chomp is more selective.
    
      You cannot CORE::chop a literal, only a variable.
    
      If you CORE::chop a @list of variables, each string in the list is chopped:
    
      @lines = `cat myfile`;
      CORE::chop @lines;
    
      You can CORE::chop anything that is an lvalue, including an assignment:
    
      CORE::chop($cwd = `pwd`);
      CORE::chop($answer = <STDIN>);
    
      This is different from:
    
      $answer = CORE::chop($temp = <STDIN>); # WRONG
    
      which puts a newline into $answer because CORE::chop returns the byte chopped,
      not the remaining string (which is in $tmp). One way to get the result
      intended here is with substr:
    
      $answer = substr <STDIN>, 0, -1;
    
      But this is more commonly written as:
    
      CORE::chop($answer = <STDIN>);
    
      In the most general case, CORE::chop can be expressed in terms of substr:
    
      $last_byte = CORE::chop($var);
      $last_byte = substr($var, -1, 1, ""); # same thing
    
      Once you understand this equivalence, you can use it to do bigger chops. To
      CORE::chop more than one byte, use substr as an lvalue, assigning a null
      string. The following removes the last five bytes of $caravan:
    
      substr($caravan, -5) = "";
    
      The negative subscript causes substr to count from the end of the string
      instead of the beginning. If you wanted to save the bytes so removed, you
      could use the four-argument form of substr, creating something of a quintuple
      CORE::chop:
    
      $tail = substr($caravan, -5, 5, "");
    
      If no argument is given, the function chops the $_ variable.
  • Ordinal Value of Byte

      $ord = CORE::ord($expr);
    
      This function returns the numeric value of the first byte of $expr, regardless
      of "use Char::UTF2 qw(ord);" exists or not. If $expr is omitted, it uses $_.
      The return value is always unsigned.
    
      If you want a signed value, use unpack('c',$expr). If you want all the bytes of
      the string converted to a list of numbers, use unpack('C*',$expr) instead.
  • Reverse List or Byte String

      @reverse = CORE::reverse(@list);
      $reverse = CORE::reverse(@list);
    
      In list context, this function returns a list value consisting of the elements
      of @list in the opposite order.
    
      In scalar context, the function concatenates all the elements of @list and then
      returns the reverse of that resulting string, byte by byte, regardless of
      "use Char::UTF2 qw(reverse);" exists or not.
  • Returns Next Byte

      $getc = CORE::getc(FILEHANDLE);
      $getc = CORE::getc($filehandle);
      $getc = CORE::getc;
    
      This function returns the next byte from the input file attached to FILEHANDLE.
      It returns undef at end-of-file, or if an I/O error was encountered. If
      FILEHANDLE is omitted, the function reads from STDIN.
    
      This function is somewhat slow, but it's occasionally useful for single-byte
      input from the keyboard -- provided you manage to get your keyboard input
      unbuffered. This function requests unbuffered input from the standard I/O library.
      Unfortunately, the standard I/O library is not so standard as to provide a portable
      way to tell the underlying operating system to supply unbuffered keyboard input to
      the standard I/O system. To do that, you have to be slightly more clever, and in
      an operating-system-dependent fashion. Under Unix you might say this:
    
      if ($BSD_STYLE) {
          system "stty cbreak </dev/tty >/dev/tty 2>&1";
      }
      else {
          system "stty", "-icanon", "eol", "\001";
      }
    
      $key = CORE::getc;
    
      if ($BSD_STYLE) {
          system "stty -cbreak </dev/tty >/dev/tty 2>&1";
      }
      else {
          system "stty", "icanon", "eol", "^@"; # ASCII NUL
      }
      print "\n";
    
      This code puts the next single-byte typed on the terminal in the string $key.
      If your stty program has options like cbreak, you'll need to use the code where
      $BSD_STYLE is true. Otherwise, you'll need to use the code where it is false.
  • Index by Byte String

      $index = CORE::index($string,$substring,$offset);
      $index = CORE::index($string,$substring);
    
      This function searches for one byte string within another. It returns the position
      of the first occurrence of $substring in $string. The $offset, if specified, says
      how many bytes from the start to skip before beginning to look. Positions are based
      at 0. If the substring is not found, the function returns one less than the base,
      ordinarily -1. To work your way through a string, you might say:
    
      $pos = -1;
      while (($pos = CORE::index($string, $lookfor, $pos)) > -1) {
          print "Found at $pos\n";
          $pos++;
      }
  • Rindex by Byte String

      $rindex = CORE::rindex($string,$substring,$offset);
      $rindex = CORE::rindex($string,$substring);
    
      This function works just like CORE::index except that it returns the position of
      the last occurrence of $substring in $string (a reverse CORE::index). The function
      returns -1 if not $substring is found. $offset, if specified, is the rightmost
      position that may be returned. To work your way through a string backward, say:
    
      $pos = CORE::length($string);
      while (($pos = CORE::rindex($string, $lookfor, $pos)) >= 0) {
          print "Found at $pos\n";
          $pos--;
      }

Un-Escaping bytes::* Functions (Char/UTF2.pm provides)

Char/UTF2.pm removes 'bytes::' at head of function name.

  ---------------------------------------
  Before           After     Works as
  ---------------------------------------
  bytes::chr       chr       Byte
  bytes::index     index     Byte
  bytes::length    length    Byte
  bytes::ord       ord       Byte
  bytes::rindex    rindex    Byte
  bytes::substr    substr    Byte
  ---------------------------------------

Escaping Built-in Standard Module (Char/Eutf2.pm provides)

Char/Eutf2.pm does "BEGIN { unshift @INC, '/Perl/site/lib/Char::UTF2' }" at head. Store the standard module modified for Char::UTF2 software in this directory to override built-in standard modules.

Escaping Standard Module Content (You do)

You need copy built-in standard module to /Perl/site/lib/Char::UTF2 and change 'use utf8;' to 'use Char::UTF2;' in its. You need help yourself for now.

Back to and see 'Escaping Your Script'. Enjoy hacking!!

Ignore Pragmas and Modules

  -----------------------------------------------------------
  Before                    After
  -----------------------------------------------------------
  use strict;               use strict; no strict qw(refs);
  use 5.12.0;               use 5.12.0; no strict qw(refs);
  require utf8;             # require utf8;
  require bytes;            # require bytes;
  require charnames;        # require charnames;
  require I18N::Japanese;   # require I18N::Japanese;
  require I18N::Collate;    # require I18N::Collate;
  require I18N::JExt;       # require I18N::JExt;
  require File::DosGlob;    # require File::DosGlob;
  require Wild;             # require Wild;
  require Wildcard;         # require Wildcard;
  require Japanese;         # require Japanese;
  use utf8;                 # use utf8;
  use bytes;                # use bytes;
  use charnames;            # use charnames;
  use I18N::Japanese;       # use I18N::Japanese;
  use I18N::Collate;        # use I18N::Collate;
  use I18N::JExt;           # use I18N::JExt;
  use File::DosGlob;        # use File::DosGlob;
  use Wild;                 # use Wild;
  use Wildcard;             # use Wildcard;
  use Japanese;             # use Japanese;
  no utf8;                  # no utf8;
  no bytes;                 # no bytes;
  no charnames;             # no charnames;
  no I18N::Japanese;        # no I18N::Japanese;
  no I18N::Collate;         # no I18N::Collate;
  no I18N::JExt;            # no I18N::JExt;
  no File::DosGlob;         # no File::DosGlob;
  no Wild;                  # no Wild;
  no Wildcard;              # no Wildcard;
  no Japanese;              # no Japanese;
  -----------------------------------------------------------

  Comment out pragma to ignore utf8 environment, and Char/Eutf2.pm provides these
  functions.
  • Dummy utf8::upgrade

      $num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string);
    
      Returns the number of octets necessary to represent the string.
  • Dummy utf8::downgrade

      $success = utf8::downgrade($string[, FAIL_OK]);
    
      Returns true always.
  • Dummy utf8::encode

      utf8::encode($string);
    
      Returns nothing.
  • Dummy utf8::decode

      $success = utf8::decode($string);
    
      Returns true always.
  • Dummy utf8::is_utf8

      $flag = utf8::is_utf8(STRING);
    
      Returns false always.
  • Dummy utf8::valid

      $flag = utf8::valid(STRING);
    
      Returns true always.
  • Dummy bytes::chr

      This function is same as chr.
  • Dummy bytes::index

      This function is same as index.
  • Dummy bytes::length

      This function is same as length.
  • Dummy bytes::ord

      This function is same as ord.
  • Dummy bytes::rindex

      This function is same as rindex.
  • Dummy bytes::substr

      This function is same as substr.

Environment Variable

 This software uses the flock function for exclusive control. The execution of the
 program is blocked until it becomes possible to read or write the file.
 You can have it not block in the flock function by defining environment variable
 SJIS_NONBLOCK.
 
 Example:
 
   SET SJIS_NONBLOCK=1
 
 (The value '1' doesn't have the meaning)

Perl5.6 Emulation on perl5.005

  Using warnings pragma on perl5.00503 by rename files.

  warnings.pm_ --> warnings.pm
  warnings/register.pm_ --> warnings/register.pm

Perl5.16 Emulation

  Using feature pragma by rename files.

  feature.pm_ --> feature.pm

BUGS, LIMITATIONS, and COMPATIBILITY

I have tested and verified this software using the best of my ability. However, a software containing much regular expression is bound to contain some bugs. Thus, if you happen to find a bug that's in Char::UTF2 software and not your own program, you can try to reduce it to a minimal test case and then report it to the following author's address. If you have an idea that could make this a more useful tool, please let everyone share it.

  • format

    Function "format" can't handle multiple-octet code same as original Perl.

  • cloister of regular expression

    The cloister (?s) and (?i) of a regular expression will not be implemented for the time being. Cloister (?s) can be substituted with the .(dot) and \N on /s modifier. Cloister (?i) can be substituted with \F...\E.

  • Char::UTF2::substr as Lvalue

    Char::UTF2::substr differs from CORE::substr, and cannot be used as a lvalue. To change part of a string, you can use the optional fourth argument which is the replacement string.

    Char::UTF2::substr($string, 13, 4, "JPerl");

  • Special Variables $` and $& need /( Capture All )/

      Because $` and $& use $1.
    
      -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Before          After                Works as
      -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      $`              Char::Eutf2::PREMATCH()    CORE::substr($&,0,CORE::length($&)-CORE::length($1))
      $PREMATCH       Char::Eutf2::PREMATCH()    CORE::substr($&,0,CORE::length($&)-CORE::length($1))
      ${^PREMATCH}    Char::Eutf2::PREMATCH()    CORE::substr($&,0,CORE::length($&)-CORE::length($1))
      $&              Char::Eutf2::MATCH()       $1
      $MATCH          Char::Eutf2::MATCH()       $1
      ${^MATCH}       Char::Eutf2::MATCH()       $1
      $'              Char::Eutf2::POSTMATCH()   $'
      $POSTMATCH      Char::Eutf2::POSTMATCH()   $'
      ${^POSTMATCH}   Char::Eutf2::POSTMATCH()   $'
      -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  • Limitation of Regular Expression

    This software has limitation from \G in multibyte anchoring. On perl5.006, perl5.008, perl5.010, perl5.012, perl5.014 and perl5.016 it doesn't match in the place in which it should match at over 32,767 octets. Moreover, at that time, neither the error nor warning are displayed.

    see also, Bug #89792 \G can't treat over 32,767 octets http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=89792 [perl #116379] \G can't treat over 32767 octet http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/01/msg197320.html

  • Empty Variable in Regular Expression

    Unlike literal null string, an interpolated variable evaluated to the empty string can't use the most recent pattern from a previous successful regular expression.

  • Limitation of ?? and m??

    Multibyte character needs ( ) which is before {n,m} {n,} {n} * and + in ?? or m??. As a result, you need to rewrite a script about $1,$2,$3,... You cannot use (?: ) ? {n,m}? {n,}? and {n}? in ?? and m??, because delimiter of m?? is '?'.

  • Modifier /a /d /l and /u of Regular Expression

    The concept of this software is not to use two or more encoding methods at the same time. Therefore, modifier /a /d /l and /u are not supported. \d means [0-9] always.

AUTHOR

INABA Hitoshi <ina@cpan.org>

This project was originated by INABA Hitoshi.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

This software is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

My Goal

P.401 See chapter 15: Unicode of ISBN 0-596-00027-8 Programming Perl Third Edition.

Before the introduction of Unicode support in perl, The eq operator just compared the byte-strings represented by two scalars. Beginning with perl 5.8, eq compares two byte-strings with simultaneous consideration of the UTF8 flag.

  Information processing model beginning with perl 5.8
 
    +----------------------+---------------------+
    |     Text strings     |                     |
    +----------+-----------|    Binary strings   |
    |   UTF8   |  Latin-1  |                     |
    +----------+-----------+---------------------+
    | UTF8     |            Not UTF8             |
    | Flagged  |            Flagged              |
    +--------------------------------------------+
    http://perl-users.jp/articles/advent-calendar/2010/casual/4
 
    You should memorize this figure.
 
    (Why is only Latin-1 special?)

This change consequentially made a big gap between a past script and new script. Both scripts cannot re-use the code mutually any longer. Because a new method puts a strain in the programmer, it will still take time to replace all the in existence scripts.

The biggest problem of new method is that the UTF8 flag can't synchronize to real encode of string. Thus you must debug about UTF8 flag, before your script. How to solve it by returning to a past method, let's drag out page 402 of the old dusty Programming Perl, 3rd ed. again.

  Information processing model beginning with perl3 or this software.

    +--------------------------------------------+
    |       Text strings as Binary strings       |
    |       Binary strings as Text strings       |
    +--------------------------------------------+
    |              Not UTF8 Flagged              |
    +--------------------------------------------+

Ideally, I'd like to achieve these five Goals:

  • Goal #1:

    Old byte-oriented programs should not spontaneously break on the old byte-oriented data they used to work on.

    It has already been achieved by UTF-2 designed for combining with old byte-oriented ASCII.

  • Goal #2:

    Old byte-oriented programs should magically start working on the new character-oriented data when appropriate.

    Still now, 1 octet is counted with 1 by embedded functions length, substr, index, rindex and pos that handle length and position of string. In this part, there is no change. The length of 1 character of 2 octet code is 2.

    On the other hand, the regular expression in the script is added the multibyte anchoring processing with this software, instead of you.

    figure of Goal #1 and Goal #2.

                                   GOAL#1  GOAL#2
                            (a)     (b)     (c)     (d)     (e)
          +--------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
          | data         |  Old  |  Old  |  New  |  Old  |  New  |
          +--------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
          | script       |  Old  |      Old      |      New      |
          +--------------+-------+---------------+---------------+
          | interpreter  |  Old  |              New              |
          +--------------+-------+-------------------------------+
          Old --- Old byte-oriented
          New --- New character-oriented

    There is a combination from (a) to (e) in data, script and interpreter of old and new. Let's add the Encode module and this software did not exist at time of be written this document and JPerl did exist.

                            (a)     (b)     (c)     (d)     (e)
                                          JPerl           Encode,Char::UTF2
          +--------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
          | data         |  Old  |  Old  |  New  |  Old  |  New  |
          +--------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
          | script       |  Old  |      Old      |      New      |
          +--------------+-------+---------------+---------------+
          | interpreter  |  Old  |              New              |
          +--------------+-------+-------------------------------+
          Old --- Old byte-oriented
          New --- New character-oriented

    The reason why JPerl is very excellent is that it is at the position of (c). That is, it is not necessary to do a special description to the script to process new character-oriented string.

    Contrasting is Encode module and describing "use Char::UTF2;" on this software, in this case, a new description is necessary.

  • Goal #3:

    Programs should run just as fast in the new character-oriented mode as in the old byte-oriented mode.

    It is impossible. Because the following time is necessary.

    (1) Time of escape script for old byte-oriented perl.

    (2) Time of processing regular expression by escaped script while multibyte anchoring.

  • Goal #4:

    Perl should remain one language, rather than forking into a byte-oriented Perl and a character-oriented Perl.

    JPerl remains one Perl language by forking to two interpreters. However, the Perl core team did not desire fork of the interpreter. As a result, Perl language forked contrary to goal #4.

    A character-oriented perl is not necessary to make it specially, because a byte-oriented perl can already treat the binary data. This software is only an application program of byte-oriented Perl, a filter program.

    And you will get support from the Perl community, when you solve the problem by the Perl script.

  • Goal #5:

    JPerl users will be able to maintain JPerl by Perl.

    May the JPerl be with you, always.

Back when Programming Perl, 3rd ed. was written, UTF8 flag was not born and Perl is designed to make the easy jobs easy. This software provide programming environment like at that time.

Words of Learning Perl

   Some computer scientists (the reductionists, in particular) would
  like to deny it, but people have funny-shaped minds. Mental geography
  is not linear, and cannot be mapped onto a flat surface without
  severe distortion. But for the last score years or so, computer
  reductionists have been first bowing down at the Temple of Orthogonality,
  then rising up to preach their ideas of ascetic rectitude to any who
  would listen.
 
   Their fervent but misguided desire was simply to squash your mind to
  fit their mindset, to smush your patterns of thought into some sort of
  Hyperdimensional Flatland. It's a joyless existence, being smushed.
 
  --- Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
 
  If you think this is a big headache, you're right. No one likes
  this situation, but Perl does the best it can with the input and
  encodings it has to deal with. If only we could reset history and
  not make so many mistakes nest time.
 
  --- Learning Perl 6th Edition

SEE ALSO

 PERL PUROGURAMINGU
 Larry Wall, Randal L.Schwartz, Yoshiyuki Kondo
 December 1997
 ISBN 4-89052-384-7
 http://www.context.co.jp/~cond/books/old-books.html

 Programming Perl, Second Edition
 By Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Randal L. Schwartz
 October 1996
 Pages: 670
 ISBN 10: 1-56592-149-6 | ISBN 13: 9781565921498
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565921498.do

 Programming Perl, Third Edition
 By Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant
 Third Edition  July 2000
 Pages: 1104
 ISBN 10: 0-596-00027-8 | ISBN 13: 9780596000271
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596000271.do

 The Perl Language Reference Manual (for Perl version 5.12.1)
 by Larry Wall and others
 Paperback (6"x9"), 724 pages
 Retail Price: $39.95 (pound 29.95 in UK)
 ISBN-13: 978-1-906966-02-7
 http://www.network-theory.co.uk/perl/language/

 Perl Pocket Reference, 5th Edition
 By Johan Vromans
 Publisher: O'Reilly Media
 Released: July 2011
 Pages: 102
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018476.do

 Programming Perl, 4th Edition
 By: Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Jon Orwant
 Publisher: O'Reilly Media
 Formats: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online
 Released: March 2012
 Pages: 1130
 Print ISBN: 978-0-596-00492-7 | ISBN 10: 0-596-00492-3
 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4493-9890-3 | ISBN 10: 1-4493-9890-1
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596004927.do

 Perl Cookbook, Second Edition
 By Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington
 Second Edition  August 2003
 Pages: 964
 ISBN 10: 0-596-00313-7 | ISBN 13: 9780596003135
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596003135.do

 Perl in a Nutshell, Second Edition
 By Stephen Spainhour, Ellen Siever, Nathan Patwardhan
 Second Edition  June 2002
 Pages: 760
 Series: In a Nutshell
 ISBN 10: 0-596-00241-6 | ISBN 13: 9780596002411
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596002411.do

 Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
 By Randal L. Schwartz, Erik Olson, Tom Christiansen
 August 1997
 Pages: 306
 ISBN 10: 1-56592-324-3 | ISBN 13: 9781565923249
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565923249.do

 Learning Perl, Fifth Edition
 By Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, brian d foy
 June 2008
 Pages: 352
 Print ISBN:978-0-596-52010-6 | ISBN 10: 0-596-52010-7
 Ebook ISBN:978-0-596-10316-3 | ISBN 10: 0-596-10316-6
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596520113.do

 Learning Perl, 6th Edition
 By Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, Tom Phoenix
 June 2011
 Pages: 390
 ISBN-10: 1449303587 | ISBN-13: 978-1449303587
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018452.do

 Perl RESOURCE KIT UNIX EDITION
 Futato, Irving, Jepson, Patwardhan, Siever
 ISBN 10: 1-56592-370-7
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565923706.do

 MODAN Perl NYUMON
 By Daisuke Maki
 2009/2/10
 Pages: 344
 ISBN 10: 4798119172 | ISBN 13: 978-4798119175
 http://www.seshop.com/product/detail/10250/

 Understanding Japanese Information Processing
 By Ken Lunde
 January 1900
 Pages: 470
 ISBN 10: 1-56592-043-0 | ISBN 13: 9781565920439
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565920439.do

 CJKV Information Processing
 Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing
 By Ken Lunde
 First Edition  January 1999
 Pages: 1128
 ISBN 10: 1-56592-224-7 | ISBN 13: 9781565922242
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565922242.do

 Mastering Regular Expressions, Second Edition
 By Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
 Second Edition  July 2002
 Pages: 484
 ISBN 10: 0-596-00289-0 | ISBN 13: 9780596002893
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596002893.do

 Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition
 By Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
 Third Edition  August 2006
 Pages: 542
 ISBN 10: 0-596-52812-4 | ISBN 13:9780596528126
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596528126.do

 Regular Expressions Cookbook
 By Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan
 May 2009
 Pages: 512
 ISBN 10:0-596-52068-9 | ISBN 13: 978-0-596-52068-7
 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596520694.do

 JIS KANJI JITEN
 Kouji Shibano
 Pages: 1456
 ISBN 4-542-20129-5
 http://www.webstore.jsa.or.jp/lib/lib.asp?fn=/manual/mnl01_12.htm

 UNIX MAGAZINE
 1993 Aug
 Pages: 172
 T1008901080816 ZASSHI 08901-8
 http://ascii.asciimw.jp/books/books/detail/978-4-7561-5008-0.shtml

 MacPerl Power and Ease
 By Vicki Brown, Chris Nandor
 April 1998
 Pages: 350
 ISBN 10: 1881957322 | ISBN 13: 978-1881957324
 http://www.amazon.com/Macperl-Power-Ease-Vicki-Brown/dp/1881957322

 Other Tools
 http://search.cpan.org/dist/jacode/
 http://search.cpan.org/dist/Char/

 BackPAN
 http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/I/IN/INA/

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This software was made referring to software and the document that the following hackers or persons had made. I am thankful to all persons.

 Rick Yamashita, Shift_JIS
 ttp://furukawablog.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1pmWgsL289nm7Shn7cS0jHzA!2225.entry (dead link)
 ttp://shino.tumblr.com/post/116166805/1981-us-jis
 (add 'h' at head)
 http://www.wdic.org/w/WDIC/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%95%E3%83%88JIS

 Larry Wall, Perl
 http://www.perl.org/

 Kazumasa Utashiro, jcode.pl
 ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/IIJ/dist/utashiro/perl/
 http://log.utashiro.com/pub/2006/07/jkondo_a580.html

 Jeffrey E. F. Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions
 http://regex.info/

 SADAHIRO Tomoyuki, The right way of using Shift_JIS
 http://homepage1.nifty.com/nomenclator/perl/shiftjis.htm
 http://search.cpan.org/~sadahiro/

 Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, YAPC::Asia2006 Ruby on Perl(s)
 http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/slides/yapc2006/

 jscripter, For jperl users
 http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazuf/jperl.html

 Bruce., Unicode in Perl
 http://www.rakunet.org/tsnet/TSabc/18/546.html

 Hiroaki Izumi, Perl5.8/Perl5.10 is not useful on the Windows.
 http://www.aritia.jp/hizumi/perl/perlwin.html

 TSUKAMOTO Makio, Perl memo/file path of Windows
 http://digit.que.ne.jp/work/wiki.cgi?Perl%E3%83%A1%E3%83%A2%2FWindows%E3%81%A7%E3%81%AE%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%91%E3%82%B9

 chaichanPaPa, Matching Shift_JIS file name
 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/chaichanPaPa/20080802/1217660826

 SUZUKI Norio, Jperl
 http://homepage2.nifty.com/kipp/perl/jperl/

 WATANABE Hirofumi, Jperl
 http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/jperl/
 http://search.cpan.org/~watanabe/
 ftp://ftp.oreilly.co.jp/pcjp98/watanabe/jperlconf.ppt

 Chuck Houpt, Michiko Nozu, MacJPerl
 http://habilis.net/macjperl/index.j.html

 Kenichi Ishigaki, Pod-PerldocJp, Welcome to modern Perl world
 http://search.cpan.org/dist/Pod-PerldocJp/
 http://gihyo.jp/dev/serial/01/modern-perl/0031
 http://gihyo.jp/dev/serial/01/modern-perl/0032
 http://gihyo.jp/dev/serial/01/modern-perl/0033

 Fuji, Goro (gfx), Perl Hackers Hub No.16
 http://gihyo.jp/dev/serial/01/perl-hackers-hub/001602

 Dan Kogai, Encode module
 http://search.cpan.org/dist/Encode/
 http://www.archive.org/details/YAPCAsia2006TokyoPerl58andUnicodeMythsFactsandChanges (video)
 http://yapc.g.hatena.ne.jp/jkondo/ (audio)

 Juerd, Perl Unicode Advice
 http://juerd.nl/site.plp/perluniadvice

 daily dayflower, 2008-06-25 perluniadvice
 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/dayflower/20080625/1214374293

 Jesse Vincent, Compatibility is a virtue
 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/05/msg159825.html

 Tokyo-pm archive
 http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/tokyo-pm/
 http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/tokyo-pm/1999-September/001844.html
 http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/tokyo-pm/1999-September/001854.html

 ruby-list
 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-list/index.shtml
 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-list/2440
 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-list/2446
 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-list/2569
 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-list/9427
 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-list/9431
 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-list/10500
 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-list/10501
 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-list/10502
 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-list/12385
 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-list/12392
 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-list/12393
 http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-list/19156