Re: Field Separator

2002-07-17 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jul 17, Michael D. Risser said: >Can anyone tell me what the escape sequence for the field seprator (^]) >is, or point me to where I can find it? Basically I need to do a split >on it to parse some records. On the offchance that you REALLY do need ^], you can get the character in Perl via:

Re: Field Separator

2002-07-17 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jul 17, Michael D. Risser said: >Can anyone tell me what the escape sequence for the field seprator (^]) >is, or point me to where I can find it? Basically I need to do a split >on it to parse some records. The default field separator is ^\, not ^]. Perl stores that value in the $; variable.