RE: bug or am I not understanding?

2006-02-22 Thread Luke, David
Hi Bruce, Hex 0D 0A (Carriage Return Line Feed pair) is commonly used in Windows to signify the end of a line of text. "\n" is supposed to generate an end of line appropriate for the machine on which Perl is run. On Windows, 0D 0A is ideal, but 0A often works the same. Hex 0A is also the standard

RE: CSV Help

2005-12-22 Thread Luke, David
Hi Charles, CSV is just data as text. There is no capacity for formatting. You can write a macro for your spreadsheet program to automate formatting the imported data, or you can switch to a Perl package which produces Excel (or other compatible) files rather than CSV. If you decide to switch to

RE: change char, keep case

2005-06-20 Thread Luke, David
Several people have addressed the problem of forcing the first character of a string to be uppercase, but the problem as presented is more difficult. I don't have a solution, but I may be able to clarify the problem.   We do not wish to force the first character to be uppercase. We wish t