On 3/13/07, Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unless I'm in a different parallel universe this doesn't make sense at all! What tests have you done Bill? How is ^@ (a null or zero byte) equal to "\n"? How is control-J two bytes? I thought it was pretty much defined as the character consisting of the least-significant five bits of the value for the letter 'J', which is ten. Under my C, internal strings are terminated with a null byte character "\0" or "\c@", and only garbage follows that null terminator.
Under VIM and using od -c I see two bytes for the Control-J: \0 and \n 0000000 005000 0000002 0000000 \0 \n 0000002 In answer to your question, for example under VIM, the ^@ the other poster is seeing is actually \n (which is what the OP wants) -- but I am in my own Universe =) So, when I hit ^V^J VIM displays ^@ Cheers/Sx =) -- WC (Bill) Jones -- http://youve-reached-the.endoftheinternet.org/ http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x2A46CF06&fingerprint=on -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
