Converting '\n' to "\n"
Rick Measham
rickm at isite.net.au
Tue Jun 10 05:24:13 CDT 2003
At 7:59 PM +1000 10/6/03, David Dick wrote:
>G'day all,
>Struck an interesting one today. Starting with
>
>my ($t) = '\n';
Firstly, it should be either:
my $t = '\n'; # or possibly
my ($t) = ('\n'); # but only if there's a good reason (I can't think of one)
The parens () say 'this is a list' so in your example you're
assigning a single value to a list.
>how does one convert it to be equal to "\n", ie a normal line feed?
$t=~s/\\n/\n/g;
Will do the trick .. is that what you need or have I completely
missed the point?
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