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in reply to Input Record Separator WON'T WORK!

It would be great if you could include some of your code to look at; you'll find it helps a lot.

Otherwise, everybody (myself included) will probably suggest that you start using regular expressions to solve your tokenizing dilemma.

Update Here's an example of code using that character you keep talking about. Lemme know if it solves your problem; otherwise post some code.
my $schtuff = "blah ENDOFLINE blah ENDOFLINE blah ENDOFLINE\n"; open my $DEADEND, ">schtuff.txt" or die 'try again'; { print $DEADEND $schtuff; } close $DEADEND; open my $moreSchtuff, "<schtuff.txt" or die $!; { local $/ = 'ENDOFLINE'; while (<$moreSchtuff>) { print $_ . "<-- SHAZAM! properly tokenized!\n"; } } close $moreSchtuff;
5.8.8 Output
blah ENDOFLINE<-- SHAZAM! properly tokenized! blah ENDOFLINE<-- SHAZAM! properly tokenized! blah ENDOFLINE<-- SHAZAM! properly tokenized!

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Re^2: Input Record Separator WON'T WORK!
by stalepretzel (Initiate) on Jan 25, 2008 at 00:26 UTC
    I'm not sure I understand.... I mean... I'll need to use regular expressions to WORK with the data that I read, but this file has the potential to be HUGE, and it would be very memory intensive if I had to read the whole file at once. Could you clarify?
Re^2: Input Record Separator WON'T WORK!
by stalepretzel (Initiate) on Jan 25, 2008 at 00:48 UTC
    Sigh..... It works, and I can't even be excited because I'm still not sure why... but thanks for your help. I'll use all of your suggestions if it stops working again....