Your version of perl must not support that discipline on the binmode function.
I think you need perl 5.6.1 for this. Try the three-argument open() call : perldoc -f open Good luck!! Luke On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, dan.kelley wrote: > > no dice: i tried adding this immediately after the open: > > binmode *HTML, ":text"; > > which results in: > > Unknown discipline ':text' at ../js.pl line 25. > > > > try putting: > > > > binmode HTML, ":text"; > > > > immediately after the open. > > > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, dan.kelley wrote: > > > > > > > > hi- > > > > > > i'm tring to write a simple script that opens a set of html files and > > > replaces one hunk of text with another. i'm using 5.6.0 on solaris 8. > > > the script runs fine, and correctly replaces every piece of text that it > > > should. problem is this: it seems to convert the mode of the file in a > > > way that renders it unreadable to an application that's used to opening > > > ascii files. > > > > > > here's a synopsis of how i'm doing my edit: > > > > > > $file = "test.html" > > > print "opening $file.\n"; > > > open(*HTML, "+> $file"); > > > truncate *HTML, 0; > > > print *HTML "testing file type conversion\n"; > > > close(*HTML); > > > > > > before running my script on the specified file, file reports a type of > > > ascii text: > > > > > > % file accepted-candidates.html > > > test.html: ascii text > > > > > > after running my script, here's what i'm seeing: > > > > > > % file accepted-candidates.html > > > test.html: English text > > > > > > i'm guessing that my file is now UTF-8 encoded - how do i force perl to > > > output a vanilla ascii file? > > > > > > thanks- > > > > > > dan > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
