Octavian Rasnita wrote at Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:49:57 +0200:
> I try to print the \n character as \015\012 but I don't know why it works and why
>\013\010 doesn't
> work.
>
> Isn't CR character ascii 13 and LF character ascii 10?
>
> What is wrong here?
In fact CR is ASCII 13 and LF is ASCII 10.
But \015, \012 stands for *octal* numbers.
As octal numbers have the base 8,
the 9 and 10 are missing,
so it seems like they are greater than we would expect first.
Greetings,
Janek
PS: Your question is really off topic to a cgi list.
You should have better posted in perl.beginners.
(As I've already told it to you,
it's the last off topic posting of you,
I'll answer)
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