On Mar 28, 1:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ay) wrote: > Hi, > > Current task requires me to combine a few files into a single file > ( abc. txt ) where in each file has to be in a single page. I was able > to create a combined file, but not able to ensure that each file > resides in a page. Attempted a few things like 'format_lines_left' > i.e $-. in vain... One of the possibilities left with me is to give > sufficient "\n" between each file that way ensuring that each file > read in resides in a page (which is something that I would like to do > at the last). Is there any other mechanism that can be done to ensure > that each file resides in a page.. say page break character or > something...
The traditional page break character for text files is the form-feed character, which is ascii 12, 0x0C, \f in Perl and C, or ^L if you use Emacs. There's more information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_feed and in Google. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
