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

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