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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users File Delimiter Post 302661279 by methyl on Monday 25th of June 2012 05:55:23 AM
Old 06-25-2012
There is no command to find out the delimiter in a unix text file. It is not a directory parameter.
You will have to find out from the author of the program which wrote the file.
Visually inspecting the file may be enough, but you will need to open the file to do this.
 

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PPIx::Regexp::Token::Delimiter(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       PPIx::Regexp::Token::Delimiter(3pm)

NAME
PPIx::Regexp::Token::Delimiter - Represent the delimiters of the regular expression SYNOPSIS
use PPIx::Regexp::Dumper; PPIx::Regexp::Dumper->new( 'qr{foo}smx' ) ->print(); INHERITANCE
"PPIx::Regexp::Token::Delimiter" is a PPIx::Regexp::Token::Structure. "PPIx::Regexp::Token::Delimiter" has no descendants. DESCRIPTION
This token represents the delimiters of the regular expression. Since the tokenizer has to figure out where these are anyway, this class is used to give the lexer a hint about what is going on. METHODS
This class provides no public methods beyond those provided by its superclass. SUPPORT
Support is by the author. Please file bug reports at <http://rt.cpan.org>, or in electronic mail to the author. AUTHOR
Thomas R. Wyant, III wyant at cpan dot org COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2009-2012 by Thomas R. Wyant, III This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.10.0. For more details, see the full text of the licenses in the directory LICENSES. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. perl v5.14.2 2012-06-06 PPIx::Regexp::Token::Delimiter(3pm)
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