On Feb 4, 12:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote: > axtenswrote: > > On Feb 1, 10:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Dixon) wrote: > >> axtenswrote: > >>> G'day everyone > John
As it happens, there are commas in the data, and they can be on either side of the the tab. What's more, I wanted to be able to handle the possibility of comma and comma+space. I certainly didn't think of the [] notation, which is a good idea. (Am showing my beginner status quite well here.) As for the /e with the FS, the FS is actually a constant for chr(28) which we're using internally as ... can you believe it ... a field separator. (How many years has it been in the low end of the ASCII sequence, never being used as what it was originally designed for?) Anyway, thanks muchly for your input. Kind regards, Bruce. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
