Re: fixed-sized output records

2002-01-02 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:41:47PM -0500, Tzadik Vanderhoof wrote: > There is a (relatively) new feature of the $/ variable which allows you to > set it to a numeric reference, i.e: > > $/ = \80; This is good and useful because the semantics of <> are inherently record-oriented. In the past, t

fixed-sized output records

2002-01-02 Thread Tzadik Vanderhoof
Hi. I've had a feature in mind for a while now, but I missed my chance to make it an RFC. I was told that I could still present it by using this list, so here goes. There is a (relatively) new feature of the $/ variable which allows you to set it to a numeric reference, i.e: $/ = \80; This