How can I get Perl to spit out control characters, such as ^J (the linefeed) as the actual control character? Every time I try to print it, Perl converts it to the ASCII \n character.
I need to process a file, converting a \n to \cJ, AKA the ^J character. I've tried various things with sprintf, hex(), and other random things, but no luck. Has anyone else had to deal with this before? If I pipe the output of the file to "od -c" on the command line, the other control characters (which are already correct in the file) seem to come through as their octal value. However, most attempts to convert the \n into a ^J seem to end up with Perl interpreting it to \n or a null character, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think that if it's working correctly, I should start seeing the ^J (\n) as the octal character "21." Thanks for the help. Shawn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
