Parse line with LF character within

[CJason]

I am reading a file, line by line, where each line has a mixture of "regular" characters as well as CONTROL characters. I works fine...EXCEPT when there is a LineFeed character in the line. Perl is determining that that is the end of the line...when, actually, there is more on the line.

I've cheesed something together where I replace the LineFeed with the character "X", then I append the next line to it. But, this isn't very elegant.

Is there a better, more elegant way, to hand this situation?

Thanks in advance!

 

[MillerH]

Search for "$/". You're looking for the section that begins: "$INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR"

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html

Also, you might need to take advantage of binmode:

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/binmode.html

- Miller