On Oct 28, 2005, at 15:09, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
On Oct 28, Renee Halbrook said:
My perl interpreter display does not recognize "\r" for a newline
character
for standard out, so it simply printed the same line over on top
of the
previous line, making it look like it was only reading one line
total.
The slurping was working fine, but the display was not what I
anticipating.
That's not Perl's issue. That's your terminal's issue. And it's
not an "issue", because that's what \r is supposed to do. \r is a
carriage return, which only means the cursor is brought back to the
beginning of the line.
(Except maybe on Macs, I don't know. That's weird. I don't use a
Mac, though, so I can't be sure.)
In Mac OS X the newline is \012 and that is what "\n" is eq to. I was
told in MacPerl (for MacOS pre X) the underlying codes of \n and \r
were switched (wrt to the rest of platforms), but still \n is the
logical newline everywhere.
-- fxn
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