Problems with interpreting octal values

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Oh wise ones,
I'm having issues with the following:

$value="12\012";
print $value;
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The output is 12 and a line feed (enter). Now when I read the above value in from an xml file,
then my output is: 12\012.
Any idea how I can fix this problem? I need to specify the line feed or other, but they need to be read from an xml file.
Thanks in advance...

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Re: Problems with interpreting octal values by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 18, 2006 at 16:13 UTC
In XML, a LF can be encoded as ` `. If you encode it differently, you'll have to decode it yourself.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Problems with interpreting octal values by Anonymous Monk on Dec 18, 2006 at 16:43 UTC
Thanks a lot, works like a charm	[reply]

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