On 9 Feb 98 at 17:22, "Mark F. Murphy" <markm@mail.tyrell.com> wrote: > print 'Ord \r: ' . ord("\r") . "\n"; > print 'Ord \n: ' . ord("\n") . "\n"; > > Yields: > > Ord \r: 10 > Ord \n: 13 > > In MacPerl 5.1.5r4. > > This is obviously a little backwards. ... togther with a number of further comments. Out of interest, if you believe \n to be well defined than what would you expect it to print in MS-DOS Perl? Jon. -- Jon Warbrick, Computer Systems Manager, jw35@cus.cam.ac.uk St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP, UK. +44 (0)1223 338751 (also webmaster, computer-support and part-time postmaster@joh.cam.ac.uk) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch