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Re: How do I handle mid-line carriage returns in a flatfile database?by Anonymous Monk |
on Dec 30, 2000 at 05:33 UTC ( [id://48949]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
There's a whole bunch of stuff in the FAQ about matching over more than one line, like the /s modifier for the end of a regular expression, which means "the stuff you find doesn't have to be on the same line".
It also say that if you set $/ = '' then Perl will read in paragraphs at a time, not lines at a time. Does that help? But obviously, killing the carriage returns on the way in to your program is going to solve it. The equivalent to the $/ = '' thing above is surely to * replace all double returns with a holding pattern like |||| * replace all single returns with spaces * replace all |||| with returns
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