Re: [MacPerl] Re: Newlines

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

On Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 05:28:44PM -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:
} 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.

What Chris said.  In any event, Unix Perl won't work with Mac text
Perl scripts (try it sometime), so why should MacPerl work with Unix
text Perl scripts?  Conversion is a one line Perl script, and there
are tons of other ways available to do it.  It can be automatically
done during transfer, for example.

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