Re: Re[2]: line end problems - help #2

--- Maxim Berlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Curtis, > > Thursday, September 13, 2001, Curtis Poe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > CP> That will show non-printing characters (-v) and the end of line will be >indicated with a > dollar > CP> sign (-E). If you see a ^M before the end of line

Forward slash in regex pattern

Hello. I'm new to Perl and CGI and seem to have dropped in the deep end with this particular problem! The basic requirement is: if a string doesn't begin with a sequence of characters then prepend that sequence to the string. Seems simple enough, but this is complicated (it would seem from

Re: file write problem

THanks, I tried substituting: flock(WRITE_COMMENT, (LOCK_EX() || die("cannot lock comment file: $!"))); to no avail. THe file has been previously opened (for reading) and then closed after, prior to being opened by another sub for appending. The code I used to append worked as part of a stand