On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 17:54 -0400, Moon, John wrote:
> Does anyone know the octal code for what vi is showing as "^L"? I tried
> "\n\r" & \r\n" but that does not seem to be the same... I am on a UNIX
> box... I need the octal code to add to the beginning of first record
> written from my perl script... I'm using "write" and "format" and need
> ALL headers to be alike... the first is w/out the "^L"...
>
> Thank you in advance...
>
> John W Moon
>
>
use Perl;
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $char = 'L';
my $ctrl_code = ord( $char ) - ord( '@' );
print "control code: ^$char\n";
printf "decimal: %d\n", $ctrl_code;
printf "octal: \\%03o\n", $ctrl_code;
printf "hexadecimal: \\x%02x\n", $ctrl_code;
__END__
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