SPUG: Order of -00 and -wln matters!

David Dyck david.dyck at fluke.com
Sun Oct 12 17:35:50 CDT 2003


On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 at 14:21 -0700, Tim Maher <tim at consultix-inc.com> wrote:

> Anybody ever noticed that the relative order of -00 (for paragraph
> mode) and -wln is important?

There is a warning about this in the perlrun documentation,
but I miss things all the time, and if you blink you'd skip
over the note too.


    Note that the assignment "$\ = $/" is done when the
    switch is processed, so the input record separator
    can be different than the output record separator if
    the -l switch is followed by a -0 switch:



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