Re: [MacPerl] When is \r really \n in MacPerl!?

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

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At 5:22 PM -0800 2/9/98, Mark F. Murphy wrote:

} The following:
}
} 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.
}

Excuse me?  What makes you thing that \n and \r have fixed values?  (Hint:
Kernighan and Ritchie is no longer the standard.)

The results of your script are exactly right for MacPerl, and it makes
utter sense to do this under MacOS.


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