Re: [MacPerl] Another elementary question

[rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J. Kimball)]

Noe Dinnerstein:  President, BodhiSoftWare wrote:
> 
> When I run it I get the following output:
> 
> # Value of <HANDLE> construct can be "0"; test with defined().
> File 'DorjeJigje:Programming:MacPerl Ÿ:Noe's Perl Stuff:addRpt3'; Line 8

You should fix that...


> starting loop
> end of loop
> 1376 records read
> ******
> The problem with this result is that there are only 989 records.  This is a
> text file exported from a Hypercard stack and it seems that whenever there
> is a <RET> in a large text field, MacPerl interprets that as a record
> delimiter.

That _is_ a record separator.

How do you distinguish between a newline as a record separator and a
newline in the middle of a record?


> Is there some reliable data massaging that can get the record
> delimiter to be properly perceived by MacPerl?

Don't use the record separator in the middle of a record.


> I have WordPerfect and
> Microsoft Word, as well SimpleText (although that can't handle such a large
> file) but don't know if soft vs. hard returns is the relevant issue when
> saving   as a text file.   I'm not aware of the internals of Hypercard
> (which is beyond the scope of this mailing list) but figure there must be
> some way to do this.  Any help and/or insights would be appreciated.

You can either:

Change your script so it can tell the difference between the two uses of
newlines

or

Replace the unwanted newlines before giving the file to your script.


Ronald

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