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

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 display

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

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 version

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