At 05:55 PM 11/19/2002 -0700, Doug McNutt wrote: >At 16:30 -0800 11/19/02, Heather Madrone wrote: >>I've already encountered a few text file anomalies on OS X. Most GUI applications >>seem to default to Mac-style text files (linefeeds only), > >I think that's returns only for Mac style. Don't be fooled by MPW's and perhaps >MacPerl's redefinition of \n and \r in the reverse sense from the rest of the world.
Yes. ASCII 13. \015. ^M. >I recommend use of linefeed only - ASCII 10 - for all future work in perl. >BBEdit has no trouble with that. If you're even a little bit involved with >moving perl scripts to some UNIX server where your web pages are based >you'll find that your scripts move effortlessly with any kind of file transfer. Makes sense to me. The input files are more problematic. I don't necessarily know whether they will be created on the Mac side of the house or the Unix side of the house. It sounds like I'm going to have to replace $FileHandle->getline with something that can handle either kind of line break. >--> There are 10 kinds of people: > those who understand binary, and those who don't <-- This is one of my favorite jokes. Heather Madrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.madrone.com Reality: deeper than I dreamed.
