Hi Tom,
Thanks for the reply.
> Although it's tempting to set $/ to "\n>" for the
> file format you
> describe, that's probably not correct for the first
> or last record in
> your file.
You are 50% right. This method is not correct for the
first record(which actually contains ">' only) but it
is correct for the last record(and others in between).
>I recommend that you write code to
> identify each record
> (with regular expressions, perhaps?) instead of
> using $/.
> Alternatively, you could pre-process the data file
> in some way so that
> using $/ would be a good solution.
I want to edit the file first and try to delete the
first ">" in this big file. I browse Programming Perl
and Perl Cookbook there is not such example: just
delete the first charater in a file. But they have
examples to delete the last line from a file. It seems
odd to me.
Li
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