Hi Bruce, Hex 0D 0A (Carriage Return Line Feed pair) is commonly used in Windows to signify the end of a line of text. "\n" is supposed to generate an end of line appropriate for the machine on which Perl is run. On Windows, 0D 0A is ideal, but 0A often works the same. Hex 0A is also the standard end of line marker for Unix systems, so a Unix "\n" can appear to work with Windows data in many cases.
Depending upon the OS your Perl script is running under, $a = index($state, "/\n"); will match Hex 2F 0A or Hex 2F 0D 0A. David Luke, Systems Project Analyst DMS Enterprise Information Technology Services Building 4030, Suite 115 4050 Esplanade Way Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0950 (850) 922-7587 -----Original Message----- From: Bowen, Bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 10:38 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: bug or am I not understanding? I have posted question related to this before and have received many suggestions. I have a file of varying number of records of varying lengths, delimited by comas. 022,D,092,000,004,034,000,001,000,000 023,D,031,000,000,000,000,002,000,000 024,@D ,025,000,001,900,900,093,093,900,255,065,000,279,001,028,130,161,037,106 ,016,410,017,410,255,255,255,255 026,>,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255 027,E,034,093,106,396,396,396,396,007 According to the hex editor each line ends in a hex 0D 0A. My question to the group is why would this line recognize that carriage return. open STATE, "STATEFILE.txt" or die; @lines = split /\n/, <STATE>; and this not recognize the same character; open STATE, "STATEFILE.txt" or die; $state = <STATE>; $a = index($state, "/\n"); Thanks Bruce Bowen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
