Re^3: How to eliminate redundancy in huge dataset (1,000

See how to use the variable $/ in perlvar to change Perl understanding of what a line is. For your particular case just use...

$/ = "\n\n";
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before the loop.

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Re^4: How to eliminate redundancy in huge dataset (1,000 - 10,000) by johngg (Canon) on May 07, 2008 at 22:18 UTC
... or paragraph mode. `$/ = q{};` [download] Probably safest to localise it's scope to avoid unwanted side effects. `... { local $/ = q{}; while ( <> ) { ... } } ...` [download] Cheers, JohnGG	[reply] [d/l] [select]