Re: [MacPerl] How files are read in (was: for loops)

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 11.19 -0500 12.30.1998, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>As for the why, if you've opened a file with filehandle TXT, and do <TXT>
>on it, it reads *one* line from that file. What Perl considers to be a
>line, at that point, is dictated by the predefined variable $/, which is
>newline (\n) by default. Using MacPerl, it's actually CR, or \r.

That's confusing and somewhat misleading.  In MacPerl, \n is what is
normally known as CR.  \r is then mapped to LF.  For clarification:

                                 Unix perl       MacPerl
                                 ---------       -------
LF, \012, \cJ, \x0A, decimal 10     \n             \r
CR, \015, \cM, \x0D, decimal 13     \r             \n

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