Re: filtering out non-Japanese

At 10:22 am +0100 15/12/04, Marco Baroni wrote:

> I have a long text ostensibly in utf-8, and I would like to get rid 
> of all the lines that contain anything BUT kanji, katakana or 
> hiragana (thus, throwing away Latin, but also digits, punctuation, 
> etc.)

There's probably a better way to do it but here I print only 
characters in the hiragana range or the 0-9 range:

use encoding "UTF-8";
$line = "123_.latin,\x{30AA}fran\x{00E7}ais";
for (split //, $line) {
        m~[\x{3041}-\x{30ff}]|[0-9]~ and print;
}

JD