Hi,
Period (.) is a metacharacter so will not work. Needs to be escaped.
Like so:
$/=~/\./;
It would have been set elsewhere before testing.
Having you looked up Splitting the String (Digest No. 752).
There you'll find the following from one of the contributors
$a = 'abcdef';
@arr = split (//,
Agustin Rivera wrote:
>
> Is there anyway to change the Default Input Record Separator.. or $/ .. to
> allow me to read a character at a time?
>
> I tried$/=~ /./;but it doesn't work.
$/ = \1;
John
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> Check out the read() function.
>
> perldoc -f read
>
> Is this what you are looking for?
>
> -Ori
Check out the read() function.
perldoc -f read
Is this what you are looking for?
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Yeah, but the
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> You'd probably have better luck using split.
>
> open(INFILE,
You'd probably have better luck using split.
open(INFILE,"foo.bar");
while(){
my @oneAtATime = split //,$_;
foreach $char(@oneAtATime){
do something...
}
}
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