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From: rkrebs@fantasy.dsd.es.com (Randall Krebs)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: wrapping of "options" in formatted output
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.195856.22638@dsd.es.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 19:58:56 GMT
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In article <1991Jun20.180323.20507@dsd.es.com>, in ignorance, I wrote:
>
> 	  fee -fi -fo -
> 	  fug -i -smell
> 	  the -blood -
> 	  of -a -perl-
> 	  bug
> 
> My objection is in the treatment of dashes which are preceded by
> white space.  Especially, the one preceding "the" in the command.

OK.  It has been brought to my attention that I can modify $:
to stop the dashes at the end of the line.  (Thanks, Raymond!)
I am still curious where the dash before "the" went.  Formatting
shouldn't eat any characters, should it?  After all, there is 
plenty of power in the language to snuff a character here and 
there if that is what I am trying to do.

randall.
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