Re^2: Iterator to parse multiline string with \\n terminator

[Athanasius]

Not quite. Putting \\\n into a character class causes every occurrence of either a backslash or a newline to be removed. This results in a file consisting of just a single line, which is not what is wanted. Remove the character class:

#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $file = '';

while (<DATA>)
{
    s{\\\n}{};
    $file .= $_;
}

print $file;

__DATA__
first line
second line \
third line \
fourth line
fifth line

Output:

13:10 >perl 738a_SoPW.pl
first line
second line third line fourth line
fifth line

13:13 >

Note that the substitution operates on each line of input in turn, and a single input line can contain no more than one backslash-newline sequence. So, the /g modifier is not needed.

Hope that helps,

[Lennotoecom]

my brackets was just a typo