On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 01:45 AM, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
Heather Madrone wrote:I've already encountered a few text file anomalies on OS X. Most GUI applicationsThere is some discussion of this issue in the docs, check out:
seem to default to Mac-style text files (linefeeds only), but shell programs such as
vi do not handle Mac-style text files gracefully.
Is perl on the Mac going to care whether source files are Mac-style or Unix-style?
Is it going to have difficulty reading and operating on either kind of file? What
kind of text files will it write?
Thanks in advance for any illumination.
-hmm
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perldoc perlport
And page through to a section called "Newlines"...
I guess the real question I have is does Perl on OS X qualify as MacPerl or Unix perl ... I defer to the mac os x experts, but would guess Unix perl.
Yes, Unix perl.
Of course, perl of any sort can read or write text (or non-text) files of any sort. It's just that the default line endings differ on different platforms, in the interest of convenience.
-Ken
