Re: [MacPerl] a character at a time

[Carl Johan Berglund <carl.johan.berglund@adverb.se>]

>>Does anyone know of a way to get Perl to read in (say from a plain
>>ASCII text file) only a character at a time instead of a whole line at a
>>time?
>
>use read(), documented in perlfunc.

Or use getc:

#!perl;

open(FILE, "ascii.txt");
$char = getc(FILE);

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