On 2/20/06, Bowen, Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would $a = index($state, /\n); then be the correct format to find the end of
> the line or a carriage return? Because that gives errors. I'm getting the
> impression you can use \n with some commands and not others. Just
> that it doesn't seem to be documented anywhere.
Could you be conflating the syntax of the m// operator with general
quoting? See the "Quote and Quote-like Operators" section in the
perlop manpage for information about when you can use \n to mean a
newline character. (Mostly, that's anywhere quoted, except by single
quotes or qw{}.) The same manpage has information on m//. Cheers!
--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training
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