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"...
^L is the Form Feed character which is octal 014. In Perl it can be written as "\f" or "\cL" or "\014" or "\x0C". [>>] Thank you, to all... Also (if I would RFM) it's value is available as $FORMAT_FORMFEED... jwm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/