Upside question marks in text wrangler

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May 9th, 2008, 02:26 PM

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Upside question marks in text wrangler

Hi people, we are pretty new to perl, and are trying to remove hyphens from a text document of a book, and move the following line up to previous one.

But every time we do this, an upside down question mark appears (when viewed in text wrangler, with invisibles shown)

We need to be able to match the words that are broken by these question marks, so this is a problem.

Any suggestions? What are these upside down question marks any way. Text wrangler calls them "other non-printing or special character"

Thanks people
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May 9th, 2008, 02:57 PM

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Cut and paste a sample into a post, so we can see what they are, other than that

perl Code:

Original - perl Code
$string="whatever with the question mark"; @letters=split (//, $string); for(@letters) { print "$_ ==>"ord($_)."\n"; }

$string="whatever with the question mark";
@letters=split (//, $string);
for(@letters) { print "$_ ==>"ord($_)."\n"; }

That should give you the ordinal (ASCII) value of the characters which aren't printable

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