Re: 1.4 build problems (sorry!)

[Jeff Read]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:01:33AM -0800, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> 
> i've appended the perl script below so we can collaboratively rework the
> beast.  it looks like the heart is the "$/ = foo" lines.  what does that
> mean in perl?
> 

$/ is, I believe, the current end-of-line terminator; default is "\n". That's 
right, they're parsing the file by tricking the <FOO> operator (Perl's 
equivalent to (read-line)) into grabbing everything up to the tag, by telling 
Perl that the tag is newline!

Given Perl's crocky syntax, I have to marvel slightly when something like this 
is done.

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Jeff Read <address@hidden>
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