Re: Re: What does $/ = "\/\/\n"; mean?

Excellent demonstration (++) but it is misleading in one minor way.... Your example data is actually separated by "\n//\n", which is a bit different from the original question about the separator "//\n". Your example makes it sound like the data below consists of two records, when it is actually four.

__DATA__
first row//
second row
//
another first//
another second
//
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-Blake

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Re: Re: Re: What does $/ = "\/\/\n"; mean? by gmax (Abbot) on Jan 16, 2002 at 16:13 UTC
Thanks for your comment. I agree on the VISUAL misleading of the data. However, even though the data looks like it's divided by `"\n//\n"`, the code is actually separating by `"//\n"` only, leaving one extra "\n" in the data after chomping. I presented the data that way because I has in mind fortunes files, where records are separated by a "\n%%\n". `_ _ _ _ (_\|\| \| \|(_\|>< _\|` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]