Re: [MacPerl] $/ Question... AARRGHHHHhhh!

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Power Mac Pac <macpac@macpac.com>
In message <1376894446-69864774@mail.macpac.com> you write:
>Is there a problem with setting the input line delimiter to something 
>like:
>
>$/ = "\x0D\x0D\x0A\x0A\x0A\x0A\x0A*\x0D\x0A {38}"; 
>(don't work)
>
>When I put the * in there I get a freeze

I'll investigate why you get a freeze (you shouldn't), but $/ definitely takes
a string and not a regexp value.

Matthias

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