Re: [MacPerl] Errors

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us>]

pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor) writes:
[allegedly from the Camel, although not in the Sept. 1996 Second Edition.  Can
be found in perldiag.pod, though, with the help of Shuck]
}
}                In either case, the Perl code in question will probably
}need to be converted with something like s/\x0D\x0A?/\n/g before it can be
}executed.

Yes, but, for MacPerl, this is wrong.  It should be s/\x0D?\x0A/\n/g,
because you absolutely want to get rid of the \x0A.  The presence of extra
newlines is less of a problem than the presence of an unprintable
character. This will fix both Unix and DOS files under MacPerl.  The
original would "fix" both Mac and DOS files, leaving Unix text alone.  (In
fact, a simple s/\r//g should suffice in most cases.)

The answer to the original question is that you should strip \r.  In
MacPerl, \r = \x0A.

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Paul J. Schinder
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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