Re: [MacPerl] Newlines

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 11.31 10/12/97, Mark F. Murphy wrote:
>Am I misunderstanding something or do I have to convert all my existing
>perl files from Unix newlines to Mac carriage returns?
>
>MacPerl seems to not like a Unix based text file... it won't run the
>script.  However, if I use BBEdit and change it to Mac based it runs fine.
>
>Any suggestions?

Just what you said, convert it to Mac CR (\015) instead of UNIX LF (\012).  Most text editors do this, along with gobs of other utilities, and you can make a MacPerl droplet to do it as well:

#!perl
$/ = "\012";
$^I = ".orig";
while (<>) {
    s/\012/\015/g;
    print;
}


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