On Dec 11, 2007 7:33 PM, Why Tea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my $s = "This is a string\nThis is line 2\n"; > print $s; > > The "\n" is interpreted as newline in the code above. But if the > string (i.e. $s) is in a file, it will be printed literally as "\n" - > how do I get Perl to treat it as newline? > > /Why Tea snip
I can think of two ways off the top of my head: an evil one and a pita one. The painful one is to use a substitution on the string to change all occurrences of '\n' with "\n": $s =~ s/\\n/\n/g; Of course, this won't do the right thing for '\\n' (i.e. where you are escaping the escape, not the n), so you have to run this substitution first $s =~ s/\\\\/\\/g; $s =~ s/\\n/\n/g; Of course, this only handles "\n", you would also need to add a substitution for "\t", "\r", etc. I won't go into the evil one, but lets just say string eval is highly insecure (especially in a CGI program). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
