Re: [MacPerl] \n\r vs \012\015 question

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 04.45 1998.04.09, Andy White wrote:
>Version 5.1.9:
>
>How come
>s/\n/\r/
>works to change LF to CR, but

I hope that doesn't work on your Mac (it doesn't on mine).  In MacPerl, \n
is CR and \r is LF.  "\n" means "local newline", which in Mac OS is \015.
So "\r" is made into \012.

>s/\r/\n/
>doesn't do the reverse (ie for changining mac/unix files) If I use
>\012 and \015 the replace works both ways...

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