Well, it may not be necessary in that context, but I always escape them as they've
sometimes
caused headaches for me in the past.
Greg
--- Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:33:30PM -0700, Greg Meckes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > First :
> > Your assigning a newline to the "$/" scalar: $/ = "\n";
> > Why? Get rid of it.
> >
> > Second:
> > The split: split (/|/, $/);
> > Should be : split (/\|/, $_);
> >
> > Third:
> > You should escape the pipes in the print statement:
> > "$date|$time|$name|$street|....etc";
> > Should be: |$date\|$time\|$name\|$street\|....etc";
>
> Greg,
>
> Your first two pieces of advice were spot on, but I can't see any reason why
> you'd want to escape pipes in a print statement.
>
> Am I missing something obvious?
>
> Dave...
>
> --
>
> Don't dream it... be it
>
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