Re: Update: Where to begin??!!??

[Dave Cross]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:33:30PM -0700, Greg Meckes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> First :
> Your assigning a newline to the "$/" scalar: $/ = "\n";
> Why? Get rid of it.
> 
> Second:
> The split: split (/|/, $/);
> Should be : split (/\|/, $_);
> 
> Third:
> You should escape the pipes in the print statement:
> "$date|$time|$name|$street|....etc";
> Should be: |$date\|$time\|$name\|$street\|....etc";

Greg,

Your first two pieces of advice were spot on, but I can't see any reason why
you'd want to escape pipes in a print statement.

Am I missing something obvious?

Dave...

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