Is that different from what you observed? If so which version of
Perl are you using?
Urrrggh... the problem seems to be coming up because I'm calling it as
a rake task. Rake was converting the \r\n to actual carriage return
+newline in the call to the shell.
ie:
perl -i.bak -ne 's/ date,/ varchar(8),/; s/
//g;print' sql
which shows:
0001600 s e s \n p e r l - i . b a k
0001620 - n e ' s / d a t e , /
0001640 v a r c h a r ( 8 ) , / ; s /
0001660 \r \n / / g ; p r i n t ' s q l
*however* I'm still not sure that justifies the behavior I'm
seeing... but because it's software, I think I'm going go on the side
of hating it.
Should getting the actual characters be treated differently from
getting the \r\n representation of those characters?
d.
