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Hmm...so my way wouldn't have worked eh? So much for innovativeness.

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Re: Re: Re: character conversion in a loop...
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Aug 06, 2001 at 01:06 UTC
    Right, because “Remember: the value of $/ is a string, not a regex. awk has to be better for something. :-)”

    However, you could set it to an integer to read one character at a time.

    —John