Re: [MacPerl] Recognizing Unix Line Breaks

[Juergen Christoffel <Mac.Christoffel@gmd.de>]

At 12:51 +0200 05.05.97, Lasse Hillero/e Petersen wrote:

>Anyway, an option simply to use \n as \012 and \r as \015 in MacPerl would
>be very nice IMHO. Ideally, this could be set by each script as an option
>on the #! line, and would work with Unix Perl as well, the option letter b
>(for backslash) seems appropriate and is currently unused. Default
>behaviour could be set in the Preferences for MacPerl.

A command line option would be ok. But I would very much prefer that perl
offered a \s or some such (s as in separator or slash -- cf. $/ -- for the
os-depended line break) instead and that ports would leave \r and \n
untouched. That \s could even be defined to expand to a two-byte sequence
(horror ;-) on platforms where such a sequence is known to delimit lines.

That would even allow for tests like

  print "good!" if "\n" eq "\s";

	--jc

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