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Old July 7th, 2003, 10:13 AM
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Exclamation There are many special characters in Perl that aren't on my keyboard!
There are all these characters in perl that are not on my keyboard. I don't want to have to look up the character number every time I have to use a symbol that isn't on my keyboard. Are there keyboards with these special characters or do you just type in the character number every time?

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Old July 8th, 2003, 09:36 AM
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What characters are you talking about? The ones in the ASCII Table like 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06? Why do you want to use non standard keys anyway?
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I need to use the square brackets (Characters 91 and 93). My keyboard also doesn't carry the comment character for writing notes to yourself in Perl programs (this character is either called a hash or a pound).
I found all of these characters on the chartabl.pl program in the perl command prompt. These are not from the ASCII character mappings.
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most keyboards have '[' and ']' as they are common and should be above 'Enter'. '#' is on the keyboard too if you hold 'Shift' + '3'. Maybe you have a non-standard keyboard. Don't worry though, new keyboards are cheap ... 15 dollars tops.
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If you're on windows, it could be down to your regional or locale settings for the keyboard.

Cheap keybords, buy cheap, buy twice, get a keyboard you're happy with, you're the one who's going to have to work with it

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This is strange!! I wonder how this keyboard looks like. When did you buy it anyway?

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I figured out my problems with my keyboard and now I'm all set.
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What was the problem in the end then...
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I had to use shift with some of my keys to get these characters.
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Reminds me of a problem we recenly had at work.

Some non-techs were trying to get two different video conferencing systems to work together. Video worked but not audio. They were going to replace one of the systems.

A tech went over and told them to hit the "mute" button. Works now.
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