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

[Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>]

Chris, my man, thank you for the table. :-) That's what I meant, but I
didn't phrase it too well. Personally, the whole issue is confusing and
misleading to *me*, and sometimes when I'm moving a text file from
Internet land via a PC Zip disk via MacOS to MkLinux my head starts to
hurt and I want to punch walls... :-) So when I can I just use \012 and
\015 and make it explicit. And then there's the handy little -l switch
which I see you use in all your posted scripts.

Arved

On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Chris Nandor wrote:

> 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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