[MacPerl] $\ undefined?

[Stephan Somogyi <list@gross.net>]

I'm having problems creating output files that have UNIX line breaks.

I assumed that setting $\ to "\x0a" and then printing each line to a
filehandle would result in the desired effect, but it didn't; for some
inexplicable reason I wound up with DOS linebreaks instead.

So I tried the following and got a baffling response when running it
from within the MacPerl 5.1.9r4 app:

	#!perl -w
	use strict;

	print ord($\);

	# Use of uninitialized value.
	File 'Untitled'; Line 4

Is $\ not automatically pre-initialized? If not, and since just setting
it to \x0a doesn't seem to be resulting in the desired effect, how do I
define output linebreaks to be \x0a instead of \x0d\x0a?

Stephan

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