RE: [Boston.pm] New Line

[Ron Newman]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Fernando Trias wrote:

> But on Windows, if you print "\n", it will write out a <cr><lf>. To prevent
> that, use "binmode".

I've never used Windows.  But if I did, and I said

   my $s = "abc\ndef";
   print length($s);

would I get 7, or 8?  Wouldn't this cause real problems for
the substr() function?

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