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From: schwartz@cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
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Subject: Separator frobs (was Re: regexp question)
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Date: 20 Jan 90 08:00:09 GMT
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Larry writes:
>$/ = "\0";				# line sep is something non-existent

You know, I've always kind of disliked doing that. Suppose your file
contains all possible byte values 0..255?  Something loses. Maybe doing
something like ``undef /;'' to make ``$/'' undefined could be used to
tell perl to just read the whole thing.  (Undefined is different from
the null string, right?)