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From: frech@mwraaa.army.mil (Norman R. Frech CPLS)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: $/
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Date: 7 Sep 90 17:00:29 GMT
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I am working on a mailbox conversion routine and would like to use
^A^A^A^A\n^A^A^A^A\n as $/, slurp the whole file and process each message
as $_.  The problem is when I set $/ it only takes the first ^A as the 
record seperator (this is what the manual also indicates should happen).
Is there a way to overide this convention and specify $/ to longer than
one character?  

Norm Frech < frech@mwraaa.army.mil >