I'd like to split a "text" file based on an unprintable record delimiter: \x0a. The input file is basically like this: 
\x0a  Record stuff goes here
       more of the same record here
       yet more record data.
\x0a  Next record starts here
       and continues on for a while
       and finally terminates.
\x0a  You get the idea.  Please note
       that \x0a is a one-character ASCII code,
       not the string of characters '\x0a'.
\x0a  I probably can't rely on indents for
      record boundary checking, either.

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use strict;  # I'm not a total neanderthal

$/ = /\x0a/; # also tried '\x0a'
open IN, shift;
my @records = <IN>;
close IN;

# number of records == 1 (globbed!)

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I suspect that my $/ = /\x0a/ and $/ = '\x0a' fails because \x0a isn't text, right? Must I do an unpack(), or am I overlooking something?

Thanks,
rje

In reply to Splitting on unprintables by rje

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