Re: [MacPerl] Invisible chars in files

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 01.52 98.02.04, Tom Fetherston wrote:
>I'm still working with SDF, trying to get it to work, and I have a question
>about some non printing invisible characters.
>
>I downloaded the archive (in zip format) and expanded it. EOL's got put
>into Mac format, but some non-printing ascii characters remain (perhaps
>pagefeeds).
>
>Anyway, my question is will MacPerl be effected by these?

MacPerl can print or use any character as data; it will only be adversely
affected if that character is in the text of the script and not quoted.  If
it is in a data file MacPerl uses, or quoted in the MacPerl script, then no
worries.

Is that what you mean?

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