Re: Re: Re: Help to slurp records

If $/ = ""; works, great. But it won't for the problem as you stated.

What happens when someone needs to insert a 'Field 2b' in the format six months down the road? You would have to fully rewrite a grok-at-once gimmick, but you'd only have to add the support for a new field type if it were a sensible loop.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Help to slurp records - $/ maybe? by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on May 02, 2003 at 14:25 UTC
halley, I am not sure I understand what you are saying. I realize that `$/ = "";` doesn't work for my problem. I was just illustrating that it was a lot easier and was hoping to find a similar easy solution. As far as having to insert fields - that's not a problem. The record delimeter is and always will be the same thing. What is in between doesn't matter. The problem is that I can't see anything between the end of one record and the start of the next that can be used as a delimiter. L~R	[reply] [d/l]

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by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on May 02, 2003 at 14:25 UTC

halley

$/ = "";

As far as having to insert fields - that's not a problem. The record delimeter is and always will be the same thing. What is in between doesn't matter. The problem is that I can't see anything between the end of one record and the start of the next that can be used as a delimiter.

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