Using $/ is a nice esoteric idea requiring the person to really know perl in order to understand the code...
I'd saying changing the value of $/ to alter how a file is read in is pretty idiomatic perl[1], and failing that knowledge there was a link to the perlvar manpage.
but it won't work unless you already know that the file doesn't have the record separators.
If the records are delimited by 320 character chunks then the code should work as it'll remove any existing newlines then append one. If it gets much more complex than that then some seek()ing and closer examination of the data will be needed.
HTH

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broquaint

[1] what's more, setting $/ to an integer reference was implemented with record-oriented files in mind

update: reworded the second paragraph to be more accurate/less wrong (thanks for the heads-up Aristotle)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Insert at regular increments by broquaint
in thread Insert at regular increments by EyeOpener

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