Re: Help with end of line charaters

2004-02-23 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Rob Dixon wrote: > > OK, but you still haven't solved the problem. Joseph's intent was > to show you how to examine the raw data, but I doubt he would > expect you to process a text file in that way. > ... > I really hope that this doesn't fall on deaf ears. So many > people grab hold of anything

Re: Help with end of line charaters

2004-02-23 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Westcott Andrew-AWESTCO1 wrote: > Hi, > > You have solved my problem, the key was in your script. I had not been > reading the file in binary mode and so the different LF and CR where getting > lost. > > Thanks > > I did run the script you sent which was very help full and I will store that > away

Re: Help with end of line charaters

2004-02-23 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Rob Dixon wrote: > R. Joseph Newton wrote: > > > > Maybe you should do a binary/text dump of the file. Chose a set of meanguful > > printing characters to print as character, printi anything outside of this range > > as hex. Something like: > > I like that: 'meanguful'. I shall have to try to fi

Re: Help with end of line charaters

2004-02-23 Thread Rob Dixon
Andrew Westcott wrote: > > You have solved my problem, the key was in your script. I had not been > reading the file in binary mode and so the different LF and CR where getting > lost. > > Thanks > > I did run the script you sent which was very help full and I will store that > away as I'm sure it

RE: Help with end of line charaters

2004-02-23 Thread Westcott Andrew-AWESTCO1
ECTED] Subject: Re: Help with end of line charaters Westcott Andrew-AWESTCO1 wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to perl but need to write a script that takes a file and formats > lines. > > The file has to 2 fields that are tab separated and each field is made up of > items separated by

Re: Help with end of line charaters

2004-02-23 Thread Rob Dixon
David Le Blanc wrote: > > > use Dumper::HexDump; That's Data::HexDump :) > print HexDump( $whole_durn_thang ); > > Makes for very pretty output, if you like that sort of thing.. > > You may need to put Dumper::HexDump from CPAN > (as in : > % perl -MCPAN -e shell > cpan> install Dumper::HexDu

Re: Help with end of line charaters

2004-02-23 Thread Rob Dixon
R. Joseph Newton wrote: > > Maybe you should do a binary/text dump of the file. Chose a set of meanguful > printing characters to print as character, printi anything outside of this range > as hex. Something like: I like that: 'meanguful'. I shall have to try to fir it into my conversation :) >

Re: Help with end of line charaters

2004-02-23 Thread Rob Dixon
Andrew Westcott wrote: > > I'm new to perl but need to write a script that takes a file and formats > lines. > > The file has to 2 fields that are tab separated and each field is made up of > items separated by some type of linefeed character. The end of the second > field is identified by another

RE: Help with end of line charaters

2004-02-23 Thread David le Blanc
> -Original Message- > From: R. Joseph Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 23 February 2004 4:50 PM > To: Westcott Andrew-AWESTCO1 > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: Help with end of line charaters > > Westcott Andrew-AWESTCO1 wrote:

Re: Help with end of line charaters

2004-02-22 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Westcott Andrew-AWESTCO1 wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to perl but need to write a script that takes a file and formats > lines. > > The file has to 2 fields that are tab separated and each field is made up of > items separated by some type of linefeed character. The end of the second > field is identi

RE: Help with end of line charaters

2004-02-22 Thread David le Blanc
> From: Westcott Andrew-AWESTCO1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 22 February 2004 10:08 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Help with end of line charaters > > Hi, > > I'm new to perl but need to write a script that takes a file > and formats > lines. > > The file has to 2 fiel