Martin Haase-Thomas wrote:
>
> [snip] Secondly I wonder whether "local $/ = undef"
> will have any effect. But I've never tried overriding Perl's predefined
> variables.
>
> regards
Dear Martin,
this is the well-known file-slurp mode.
E.g.:
undef $/; # enable "slurp" mode
$_ = <FH>; # whole file now here
s/\n[ \t]+/ /g;
Look for "slurp" in your perl docs.
Ernest
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