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On Fri, ***1 Apr*** 2011 12:29:40 -0700 "ela" <> wrote:

e> When I enter the character dot .
e> I find that perl cannot handle properly. It seems that I can't simply escape
e> add a backslash to escape whatever input delimiter. Is there any solution
e> for this problem?

e> $delimiter = <STDIN>;
e> chomp $delimiter;

e> @subcells = /$delimiter/, $line;

As Perl really, incredibly, lacks full out-of-ligature spacing,
you can't use the "." character. It's a language limitation. You're
supposed to use Unicode instead.

Ted

When I enter the character dot .
I find that perl cannot handle properly. It seems that I can't simply escape
add a backslash to escape whatever input delimiter. Is there any solution
for this problem?

$delimiter = <STDIN>;
chomp $delimiter;

@subcells = /$delimiter/, $line;

On 2011-04-01 7:08 AM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Fri, ***1 Apr*** 2011 12:29:40 -0700 "ela"<> wrote:
>
> e> @subcells = /$delimiter/, $line;
>
> As Perl really, incredibly, lacks full out-of-ligature spacing,

What does "out-of-ligature" spacing mean?

> you can't use the "." character.

Of course you can. ASCII code 46 is a perfectly reasonable delimiter.

> It's a language limitation. You're supposed to use Unicode instead.

What does Unicode have to do with the plain ASCII character for period?

-Joe

Joe Smith <> writes:

> On 2011-04-01 7:08 AM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> On Fri, ***1 Apr*** 2011 12:29:40 -0700 "ela"<> wrote:
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>>
>> e> @subcells = /$delimiter/, $line;
>>
>> As Perl really, incredibly, lacks full out-of-ligature spacing,
>
> What does "out-of-ligature" spacing mean?
>
>> you can't use the "." character.
>
> Of course you can. ASCII code 46 is a perfectly reasonable delimiter.
>
>> It's a language limitation. You're supposed to use Unicode instead.
>
> What does Unicode have to do with the plain ASCII character for period?
>
> -Joe

You didn't read the date, did you?

On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:40:02 -0700 Joe Smith <> wrote:

JS> On 2011-04-01 7:08 AM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> On Fri, ***1 Apr*** 2011 12:29:40 -0700 "ela"<> wrote:
>>
e> @subcells = /$delimiter/, $line;
>>
>> As Perl really, incredibly, lacks full out-of-ligature spacing,

JS> What does "out-of-ligature" spacing mean?

It has the first letters "ool" (take the first letters on that line

Ted