Re: Splitting on unprintables

Does the file contain the literal text of '\x0a', or is it just the hex value of an ASCII character in the file. If literal text, then $/ = '\x0a' should work.

If its the ASCII value (0x0A == ASCII Line Feed), then I'm guessing you're probably getting this from a *nix system and are parsing it on something else. Try setting $/ = "\n" or maybe $/ = 0x0A.

Also, remember that $/ does not contain regular expressions.

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Re: Re: Splitting on unprintables by sauoq (Abbot) on Aug 13, 2003 at 21:27 UTC
maybe `$/ = 0x0A`. Uh, no. That's equivalent to `$/ = 10`. He should be using an escape within a double quoted string (as in `$/ = "\0xa"`) or perhaps `chr()` (as in `$/ = chr(0x0a)`). -sauoq "My two cents aren't worth a dime.";	[reply] [d/l]