On Feb 6, Balaji Thoguluva said: >Thanks Tim Johnson. I removed the /r/n from the reg-ex and it works. I >have another question. How to assign a multiline string or string having >many lines(strings having \n) to a $string-variable?. In C, there is a >"\" operator.
You don't need to do anything special in Perl. $string = "This is a very long string that spans many lines"; Or you can use a 'here-doc'. $string = << "END OF STRING"; this is a very long string that spans many lines END OF STRING -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
