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Re: [MacPerl] Re: Newlines

At 16.47 10/12/97, Mark F. Murphy wrote:
>>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:
>
>Well... I was hoping I didn't have to translate the files first.  I was
>kinda hoping MacPerl would work with either transparently.

Nope.  This isn't a good idea.  What if you wanted embedded \012 characters in your MacPerl script?  It would get changed to \015 whenever you ran it.  That would be bad.  Even with the sample script I gave you, that is a danger to watch out for.  This is simply a fact of life when dealing with cross-platform text files.

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