All set with this. Converting the line endings worked fine. Thanks.
Andrew
On 7/20/06 at 7:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (kurtz le pirate) wrote:
> In article
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Brosnan) wrote:
>
> > I'm processing a string with embedded newlines. For testing I was
> > storing the text in __DATA__ and slurping it into a string. This
> > works fine. However when I read in a file, I'm having trouble with
> > the line endings. Matching begining/end of logical lines is not
> > working as I expect. Regexes like the one below match when using
> > the DATA filehandle, but don't when opening other text files on my
> > Mac.
> >
> > $text =~ s/^Text to match.*$//m;
> >
> > Is this due to UNIX '\n' vs. Mac '\r' line endings? I assumed the
> > 'm' modifier would recognize any line ending.
> >
> > Oh what to do?
> >
> > Andrew
>
> hum... is 'end of line' caracter important ?
>
> if not, you can do something like that :
> while (<FILE>) {
> chomp;
> if (/?????/) { ... }
> }
>
>
> yes ? no ?
>
