Re: quickie filters

Lou Kates (louk@research.teleride.on.ca)
Wed, 8 Jul 1992 08:51:34 -0400

>
> We are in almost complete agreement! Here's a (much enhanced) version
> that supports more Perl options and parses the script only once. I

Thanks!

> added the -F option in analogy to awk; how do you set the field
> separator in Perl?

I don't think there is any way to specify the field separator to
autosplit mode in Perl like you can in awk. If you do the split
yourself rather than use autosplit mode then you can specify the
pattern on which to split as an argument to the split function. I
am not a Perl expert but this is my understanding from reading
the manual I have.

Lou Kates, louk@research.teleride.on.ca