Re: [MacPerl] Embedded Control Chars (fwd)

[Chuck Rice <Chuck@WildRice.com>]

At 8:25 AM -0700 10/20/97, Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. wrote:


> According to Chuck Rice:
> >
> > Wait a minute! I am new to Perl, but the way I understand things,
>
> Yepper - but that is not what was originally posted and
> responded to.  Chris' program dealt with \012 and he
> pointed out that there could be problems due to control
> characters being in a program in other ways.  Someone said
> why would anyone ever put control characters in a program.

{...}

Are you saying that you put real control characters into the
program instead of using the escaped strings (such as \001)?
That would be a different story, but I though that that
went out with Applesoft Basic. -Chuck-


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Chuck Rice                                     <mailto:Chuck@WildRice.com>




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