yeah, it's one of those that you shouldn't modify or you might start seeing
unexpected results. read perlvar or google 'perl input record separator' for
more.
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Matthew Young wrote:
> On Oct 31, 10:01 am, brian5432...@yahoo.co.uk (Brian) wrote:
> > Hi guys, long ti
On Oct 31, 10:01 am, brian5432...@yahoo.co.uk (Brian) wrote:
> Hi guys, long time no working with PERL :-)
>
> I have just installed 5.2.12
>
> First, I am trying to remove leading tabs & spaces but the following leaves a
> few blanks at the beginning of each line, could someone be kind enough to
Thank you John
From: John W. Krahn
To: Perl Beginners
Sent: Sun, October 31, 2010 8:59:43 PM
Subject: Re: Removing leading whitespace and removing alternate newlines
Brian wrote:
> Hi guys, long time no working with PERL :-)
Hello,
> I have just ins
Brian wrote:
Hi guys, long time no working with PERL :-)
Hello,
I have just installed 5.2.12
First, I am trying to remove leading tabs& spaces
Just tabs and spaces? Your code says all whitespace.
but the following leaves a
few blanks at the beginning of each line,
You code only remov
Thanks Shlomi, your "untested" code worked first time.
:-)
From: Shlomi Fish
To: beginners@perl.org
Cc: Brian
Sent: Sun, October 31, 2010 4:23:52 PM
Subject: Re: Removing leading whitespace and removing alternate newlines
On Sunday 31 October 201
: Sun, October 31, 2010 4:23:52 PM
Subject: Re: Removing leading whitespace and removing alternate newlines
On Sunday 31 October 2010 17:01:24 Brian wrote:
> Hi guys, long time no working with PERL :-)
>
> I have just installed 5.2.12
>
You probably mean perl-5.12.2 .
A few more
On Sunday 31 October 2010 17:01:24 Brian wrote:
> Hi guys, long time no working with PERL :-)
>
See:
http://perl.org.il/misc.html#pl_vs_pl
> I have just installed 5.2.12
>
You probably mean perl-5.12.2 .
A few more comments on your code:
> First, I am trying to remove leading tabs & spaces
$string =~ s/^\s+//;
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565922433/ page 43
That book is my bible!!!
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Brian wrote:
> Hi guys, long time no working with PERL :-)
>
> I have just installed 5.2.12
>
> First, I am trying to remove leading tabs & spaces but the following
Hi guys, long time no working with PERL :-)
I have just installed 5.2.12
First, I am trying to remove leading tabs & spaces but the following leaves a
few blanks at the beginning of each line, could someone be kind enough to point
out the error of my ways please? :-)
#!/usr/bin/perl
local $/=
