On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 22:00 +0200, Xavier Noria wrote:
> That's wrong.
> 
> $/ is eq "\n" everywhere, and "\n" has length 1 everywhere. "\n" is  
> eq "\012" in all systems except MacOS pre-X where it is eq "\015". In  
> particular "\n" is *not* CRLF on Windows.
> 
> My article about newlines is moving forward at O'Reilly, I hope I can  
> soon provide a pointer to it. Misconceptions about newlines arise too  
> often, which was my main motivation to write it.

Thank you for the clarification. I stand corrected.

-- 
Joshua Colson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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