So today I've learnt some new things, Thanks to everybody including nafiseh , Peter Scott, Peter Lovett & Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan here for the help.
Quite an interesting $/ input record seperator which by default is \n To understand $/ better, I did this :- -- start script -- @array = ( "hello\n" ,"world\n" ,"testing\n" , "123\n"); chomp @array; ## get rid of the newline $/ = "testing"; @array2 = ( "hello\n" ,"world testing" ,"testing2\n" , "123\n"); chomp @array2; ## does not get rid of \n but will get rid of testing print (@array,"\n") ; print (@array2,"\n"); --- results ---- helloworldtesting123 hello world testing2 123 ----- end ------- Thank You ! --- end of msg --- ----- Original Message ----- From: nafiseh saberi To: Leon ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 2:24 PM Subject: Re: what is this called $/ hi. it is for The input record separator, newline by default. May be multicharacter. I send one attachment for you. it is very good with all of special characters. ____________________________ Nafiseh Saberi .... Iran. ____________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 09:24 AM Subject: what is this called $/ > I know of the following :- > > $" = '|interpolation-seperator|'; > $, = '|seperator|'; > $\ = '\n endOfLine'; > my @a = qw (hi how are you); > print "@a\n"; > > My question is what is this called ==> $/ > and where can I do some reading on $/ . > > Thanks > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
