On 30 Sep 2004 19:52:31 -0000, PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using Cygwin on Win2K and the version of perl on it is > v5.8.0 > > I am using the same input file, but when I run the command you ran, the > output looks like > > Object1 Description1 > > Object2 > Description2 > > Object3 > Description3 > > Thanks >
Hi again, Just to let you know, most on this list will become upset with you if you don't bottom-post. For future reference ... Ok, I've got ActiveState on WinXP, 5.8.4 ... I tried and found that I had the same problems as you. After much playing around, I found it's a quoting problem on the command line (at least, in my case it was). I just don't have a good grasp of quoting rules and precedence in DOS I guess. Here's what I did to make it work on my DOS command line: C:\ > perl -l -00pe s/\n/\t/;s/\"//g object.txt I basically just removed the single-quotes from around the code in the '-e' option. That gave me the output I was looking for. Try it and let us know. --Errin BTW, anyone have a good reference for DOS quoting rules/precedence? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
