> how read a file one by one symbols, not > a whole string once at time?
You don't want to, reading one character at a time is VERY slow. At worst, the operating system will cut short your time slot whilst it waits for the file access - perhaps limiting you to a few dozen characters per second... if you care much for that approach, have a look at sysopen/sysread. A better approach is to read a line at a time, and split it down into symbols. However, it's unlikely you actually need to do this in Perl. This works: my @chars = split //, $string; The best approach, is to read fixed sized blocks with sysread and then split into symbols. NB: I said you rarely need to split into symbols, why? Because Perl has one of the most expressive regular expression engine in existance, that does almost all the text manipulation you could ever require. If it's not text manip, I'd like to know what happens to these symbols :) Take care, Jonathan Paton __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
