[ILUG] [ot] Perl question

[Fergal Daly]

I think \r is the newline sep for a mac. The variable you want to play with
is $/, if you do

$/ = "\r";

open(FILE, "filename");

@array = <FILE>;

then perl will split the contents of the file on occurences of \r.

By the way if the page is big you should use

while (<FILE>)
{
	do some stuff with $_
}

instead of using @array as @array will read the whole thing in before doing
anything else, the same goes for for loops. 

Also, why do you download the page, dump it in a file and then open that
file? Why not download the page and just do

@array = split("\r", $the_web_page);

Fergal


At 17:14 11/02/00 +0000, Lee Hosty wrote:
>what I'm doing is sucking in a webpage using LWP off a site thats run on a
>mac ... 
>
>I dump this to a file ... then I open this file and want to seperate the
>lines in it ... the @array seems to read it in as one element ... so
>chomp() wont work and the only way I can think of to seperate it is by
>splitting it up using the newline element ... \n doesnt work, nor \r\n ...
>I've tried a few combinations of \f \n and \r but still no joy ...
>
>At 16:44 11/02/00 +0000, Donncha O Caoimh wrote: