Re: Re: slurping into scalars

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Re: Re: Re: slurping into scalars by rob_au (Abbot) on Dec 16, 2002 at 10:22 UTC
This is not normal behaviour and where we will need to see some code to understand what is happening. Altering the value of the input record separator, `$/`, in the manner described has no effect on the substance of the data read into the scalar variable. `perl -le 'print+unpack("N",pack("B32","00000000000000000000000111111000"))'`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: slurping into scalars by dingus (Friar) on Dec 16, 2002 at 11:11 UTC
Is it possible to alter this so every new-line is printed to a new-line?? for some reason this merges all lines together. `$_ = join("\n", <FILE>);` [download] Adds a second \n to every line. This may be what you are looking for. Seems a bit odd though. I have done this kind of thing (with some differences) when doing quick and dirty text->html output. Say you want to put <p> tags when you have blank lines but otherwise leave the text untouched then the folowing code works: `do {local $/ = $/.$/;print join('<p>', <FILE>);};` [download] Dingus `Enter any 47-digit prime number to continue.`	[reply] [d/l] [select]