[MacPerl] Changing Mac \r to Unix \n

[Oliver Moffat <oliver@xworld.com>]

I wrote my first MacPerl script today. It will batch process hundreds of 
text documents into html (...I hope...).

My question:

What is the best way to change the Mac \r to the Unix \n?

MacPerl: Power and Ease (HTML version) by Vicki Brown and Chris Nandor < 
http://yggdrasil.com/~rdm/MP/220.Oddments.html#03 > says:

               \n and \r 

                On Unix systems, the line-ending character (record 
separator) is the line
                feed (ASCII \012). On Mac OS, it's the carriage return 
(\015).

                [...snip...]

                This can cause some difficulties if you share files (or 
scripts!) between Mac
                OS and Unix systems. You'll need to be sure to 
translatethe newline char-
                acters to avoid problems. 

                [...snip...]

                many file transfer programs such as Fetch will make the 
proper transla-
                tions for you. 

I'm not interested in openning each of the files in BBedit and re-saving, 
I'm too lazy.

Should I be writing "\012" instead of "\n" in my script?

What about multi-line quotes (ie. print FH qq~ lines and lines of 
blah...blah...blah ~; )?

Or should I just stop worrying and let Fetch take care of all this?

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