On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 04:32, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:44:50AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I've been using Perl for a number of years with programs that store > > data in flat files. Usually using a combination of likely-to-be-unique > > record delimiters (usually :&:) and repeated calls to split(). To find > > a language that automatically does it for you before you ever even get > > to the 'real' code is really fascinating. > > Hey, Perl has autosplit mode; see perlrun(1) ... Aah! I did not know that! Thanks! :) So I can at least slightly clean up my code now. Though come to think of it, that could really be useful for parsing long (i.e. --option=value) command line arguments as well. I really should have studied that man page better. But I always kind of figured that anything interesting you were going to do with Perl would be done in the code itself. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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