At 11:07 AM 3/3/98, Stephan Somogyi wrote:
>I assumed that setting $\ to "\x0a" and then printing each line to a
>filehandle would result in the desired effect, but it didn't; for some
>inexplicable reason I wound up with DOS linebreaks instead.
Hm. That works, it really does. I think you are mistaken.
>So I tried the following and got a baffling response when running it
>from within the MacPerl 5.1.9r4 app:
>
> #!perl -w
> use strict;
>
> print ord($\);
>
> # 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?
No, $\ is undefined unless you give it a value.
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