Re: Special characters ignored

Perl isn't ignoring them, it's removing them. The <FILE> command reads one line from the file, and strips the carriage return, newline characters.

To stop it, undefine $/ with local $/;

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Re: Re: Special characters ignored by Chady (Priest) on Oct 03, 2001 at 17:25 UTC
In the original post, tigervamp `undef`ed $/ so I think (IMHO) that it is happening because it doesn't put the EOF marker inside the variable, and that \r\n are taken as one ENTER character, depending on the platform. update: removed semicolon after $/ - it won't die here ;~) He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life. Chady \| http://chady.net/	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Special characters ignored by tigervamp (Friar) on Oct 03, 2001 at 17:26 UTC
I did undefine $/, in the first line of my example. I also tried it your way, no luck. tigervamp	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Special characters ignored by jepri (Parson) on Oct 03, 2001 at 18:18 UTC
Whaddya know, I am an idiot after all. To redeem myself slightly I will explain that `local $/;` is better because at the end of the code block (pretty much anything in curly braces) $/ will return to it's previous value, thus preventing you from mysteriously jinxing other subroutines. It doesn't matter in one liners but if you read from two files $/ applies to both - so changing it changes both file handles. ____________________ Jeremy I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.	[reply] [d/l]