Well the /e means to evaluate the right side as an expression.

When you have multiple lines in a text file, each line contains \n at the end. This is the most common line deliminator. A line is not defined as whatever is wrapped on your screen, but generally the space between your \n (newlines).

When you grab a chunk of data using the angle brackets, by default it defines a chunk as the space between and including the trailing \n character.

I hope this helps.

J. J. Horner

Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix

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