Re: [MacPerl] UNIX Line Breaks

["Douglas P. McNutt" <dmcnutt@macnauchtan.com>]

>Floyd Resler wrote:
>I havent used MacPerl yet, but you *should* be able to:
>@Lines = split('\n',$LongString) ;
>
>the whole purpose of the perl \n is to take care of system dependant
>interpretations of CR, LF, etc

I don't think that answers the question. \n denotes the line end character on the current machine. The problem is how to handle line ends in files that originate in a different machine and are not "corrected" by the likes of ASCII mode ftp. What perl really needs is a option that asks <READ> to honor any of the four possible combinations the way browsers, M$Word, and a lot of other software does. It's not a new subject and it also affects the input of foreign perl code to the MacPerl "compiler".
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