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Re: Line break interpretation

by Molt (Chaplain)
on Oct 19, 2006 at 17:06 UTC ( [id://579402]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Line break interpretation

Another approach which may be suitable if it's only line-breaks you're interested in may be to use a substitution. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $msg = 'Hello\nWorld';
print "Msg was $msg\n";
$msg =~ s/\\n/\n/g;
print "Msg is $msg\n";

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