Re: help slurping a file

2005-10-28 Thread JupiterHost.Net
Xavier Noria wrote: use File::Slurp; my @lines = read_file($file); Wrong, that code assumes $file has the runtime platform conventions, which is not the case. OK sorry, sheesh... missed the part about it being a screwy file. Can you change the crewy line ending to a normal one then us

Re: help slurping a file

2005-10-28 Thread Xavier Noria
On Oct 28, 2005, at 16:16, JupiterHost.Net wrote: Hello, My question is, why can't I slurp in the entire file? Because you're fiddling with things that ought not be fiddled with ;p (IE $\) instead: use File::Slurp; my @lines = read_file($file); Wrong, that code assumes $file has th

Re: help slurping a file

2005-10-28 Thread JupiterHost.Net
Hello, My question is, why can't I slurp in the entire file? Because you're fiddling with things that ought not be fiddled with ;p (IE $\) instead: use File::Slurp; my @lines = read_file($file); or you can use Perl 6's slurp() via a Perl6 module (perl6::Slurp maybe ???) see cpan for det

Re: help slurping a file-- Solved -- Thanks for responses

2005-10-28 Thread Xavier Noria
On Oct 28, 2005, at 15:29, Renee Halbrook wrote: In Mac OS X the newline is \012 and that is what "\n" is eq to. I was told in MacPerl (for MacOS pre X) the underlying codes of \n and \r were switched (wrt to the rest of platforms), but still \n is the logical newline everywhere. --The specs

Re: help slurping a file-- Solved -- Thanks for responses

2005-10-28 Thread Renee Halbrook
> In Mac OS X the newline is \012 and that is what "\n" is eq to. I was > told in MacPerl (for MacOS pre X) the underlying codes of \n and \r > were switched (wrt to the rest of platforms), but still \n is the > logical newline everywhere. --The specs the file was created from: Filemaker versi

Re: help slurping a file-- Solved -- Thanks for responses

2005-10-28 Thread Xavier Noria
On Oct 28, 2005, at 15:09, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Oct 28, Renee Halbrook said: My perl interpreter display does not recognize "\r" for a newline character for standard out, so it simply printed the same line over on top of the previous line, making it look like it was only reading o

Re: help slurping a file-- Solved -- Thanks for responses

2005-10-28 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Oct 28, Renee Halbrook said: My perl interpreter display does not recognize "\r" for a newline character for standard out, so it simply printed the same line over on top of the previous line, making it look like it was only reading one line total. The slurping was working fine, but the displa

Re: help slurping a file-- Solved -- Thanks for responses

2005-10-28 Thread Renee Halbrook
Hi, Thanks for responding to my email. It looks like I had a typo in my explanation of the slurping problem. Thanks for catching that. Actually, I had the correct input field separator in my code, and simply miswrote it in my explanation. The perldoc is always a good place to start. I was using th

Re: help slurping a file

2005-10-28 Thread John W. Krahn
Renee Halbrook wrote: > Hi, Hello, > I'm not sure if this is the correct group to post this question to. If there > is a better forum for this kind of question, please let me know. > > I am trying to slurp a file that was written on Mac OSX, using a standard > text editor. > I am developing on a

help slurping a file

2005-10-28 Thread Renee Halbrook
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct group to post this question to. If there is a better forum for this kind of question, please let me know. I am trying to slurp a file that was written on Mac OSX, using a standard text editor. I am developing on a windows machine, and running my scripts on a