Hello, Regarding this from perlvar:
Remember: the value of $/ is a string, not a regex. awk has to be better for something. :-) It seems to me that the DFAable rules would intertwingle nicely as a non-backtracking stream chunker. Is the form of per-filehandle input record separators in the Synposes yet? I couldn't find it. Brad -- If there is something that must be done, it is better not to rely on others. -- Hagakure http://bereft.net/hagakure/