Equivalent of Perl's $\ ????

[fourfour2@gmail.com]

Hi,

Is there an equivalent to Perl's output record separator, or input
record separator for that amtter, ( $\ and $/ ), in PHP?

Thanks,
Ed

[Alvaro G Vicario]

Re: Equivalent of Perl's $\ ????

*** fourfour2@gmail .com wrote/escribió (3 Aug 2005 00:38:31 -0700):[color=blue]
> Is there an equivalent to Perl's output record separator, or input
> record separator for that amtter, ( $\ and $/ ), in PHP?[/color]

I know nothing about Perl. What's this operator supposed to do?


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[Sergej Andrejev]

Re: Equivalent of Perl's $\ ????

If you want to split somthing into array try
$record_array = preg_split("\#\ ","record1#reco rd2#record3");

[Ewoud Dronkert]

Re: Equivalent of Perl's $\ ????

On 3 Aug 2005 02:16:53 -0700, Sergej Andrejev wrote:[color=blue]
> If you want to split somthing into array try
> $record_array = preg_split("\#\ ","record1#reco rd2#record3");[/color]

Use explode() for simple record boundaries like this; it uses far less
resources (time, memory) than a call to the (p)regex lib.

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[fourfour2@gmail.com]

Re: Equivalent of Perl's $\ ????

It's a special variable that is used when you read data in from a Perl
file. It reads in chunks of data based on a delimiter.
The default is\n.

F.ex. if you know an input file has 3 new lines between paragraphs, yiu
can set $/ = "\n\n\n";

So insted of reading in line for line, you get the whole parachraphs as
chunks.


Of course the 3 new lines could instead be any pattern you want to use
as a delimiter.


Ed.