Question

I have the following code in my script.

if($description =~ /\'/) {
    print "I am here\n";    
    $description =~ s/\'/'/g;
}
print "description = $description\n";

When I run this script, I don’t get the "I am here\n" output as the comparison fails.

But, when the $description string does contain an apostrophe.

$description = "The baseball player’s spiritual redemption and recovery from drug addiction.";

Context: I am parsing a string got from a call to nytimes bestsellers api(returned in json format) and this string is stored in $description string.

Answer 1

Your sample string doesn’t contain an apostrophe. It contains a U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK.

It should match /\x{2019}/