Ron Powell wrote:
> There is a utility out there that will convert unix-style end-of-lines (LF)
> to dos-style (CR/LF)...
> 
> Just for giggles, I'm trying to write a perl script to do this...
> 
> Here's what I've tried...
> 
> while (<INFILE>) {
>       $line = $_;
>       $line=~tr/\012/\015\012/;
>       print OUTFILE ("$line\n");
>       }
> 
> The problem is that the output, when viewed with notepad, contains
> inappropriate line breaks...
> 
> The same input file, when converted using the unix utility unix2dos,
> converts "properly."  This leads me to believe that I'm missing something
> obvious here....
> 
> I'm not asking for the answer per se, but perhaps a pointer? 
> 
> ----------
> Ron Powell
> Senior IT Analyst &
> Network Administrator
> gomembers, Inc. (Baltimore Office)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 410-494-1600 x4058
>  <<...OLE_Obj...>> 

If your file is already in the DOS file format (each line ends with CR 
and LF), your script will replace the LF with CR and LF; which means 
your lines will end with CR + CR + LF. And, that's why they had 
inappropriate line breaks.

--
Ahmed Moustafa
http://pobox.com/~amoustafa


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