Finding if a line contains Hebrew characters in perl

[ik]

try this

#!/usr/bin/env perl -w
#

use v5.14;
use utf8;

my $text = 'שלוabv';

if ($text =~ /^[\x{5D0}-\x{5ea}]{3}/) {
  say "yes";
} else {
  say "no";
}



On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Ori Idan <ori at helicontech.co.il> wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:21 PM, ik <idokan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Ori Idan <ori at helicontech.co.il> wrote:
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>>> I have a script in perl where I read lines from a UTF-8 text file.
>>> I have to find out if a line contains at least 3 letters in Hebrew.
>>>
>>> How can this be done in perl?
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>> What is your Perl version ?
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> Perl 5 version 14.2
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> --
> Ori Idan
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