On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:04:13AM +0200, Sean Carte wrote:
> Add this line to the beginning of the script:
>
> $/ = '';
>
> That makes Perl ignore the newlines and makes the regexp work on the
> entire file.
Actually, setting $/ to '' puts Perl into paragraph mode, with blank lines
(i.e. consecutive newlines) as the input separator.
To ignore newlines completely, you need to set $/ to undef, either with:
$/ = undef;
or:
undef $/;
or, preferable:
local $/;
which will restore $/ back to its previous value at the end of the block.
> The reason it's working in Linux is probably due to the line breaks
> in the file not having been converted into native line-breaks: to
> Linux the file consists of only one line.
I think you're right about that.
Ronald
