Re: [MacPerl] Yet more on linefeeds.

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 02.21 -0500 1999.04.18, Milivoj Ivkovic wrote:
>>>Any of the 3 line endings work in Perl scripts on Windows. The default
>>>It is Perl on Unix (before 5.005, I understand) that doesn't like \015.
>>
>>Brand new download to two different Windoze boxes from ActiveState.
>>
>>perl accepts \r\n but fails with \n or \r by themselves.
>>MSWord seems to accept anything.
>>
>>Perhaps ActiveState hasn't really picked up 5.005.
>
>Are we talking about the same thing? I'm not talking about print "\n", "\r"
>etc... but about the line endings in the script file. All 3 scripts work
>fine on my Win95, with the old AS port 5.003_07 (build 316), the GS port
>5.004_02 and the latest AS port 5.005_03 (buil 515).
>
>So for Windows, you have to take care of what you print from your script in
>print statements, but not of what your script file's line endings are.

I don't think that's true ... if it were, Doug never would have had the
problem he had.  Also, perl5-porters never would have bothered with this
problem at all, because it was initiated because people wanted to use the
same program files under Unix and Windows.  If they could just use Unix
files under Windows, they probably would have.

But I am not interested enogh (today) to boot Virtual PC and run my own
tests.  :)

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