Dave,
Thanks a bunch for the help - it worked. I had to change the line to
if ($line =~ /^\r\n?/) { etc ...
To catch the empty lines.
Best,
Bruce
On 11/16/04 10:34 PM, "Dave Gomez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bruce,
> depending on the platform of the originating text file, and in OSX that
> covers 2 bases really, the newline character is different.
>
> Moc OS9 & below = \r
> Unix = \n
> Dos = \n\r
> OSX = \n but many text files are still \r from legacy
>
> So, to make you code good all around, try this instead
>
> if ($line =~ /^\n|\r\n?/) {
> # Do Something
> }
>
>
> Dave
>
> On 11/16/04 7:53 PM, "Bruce Pascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I am having a problem with a parser which works in DOS, but does not work in
>> the OS X BSD shell. The problem is trying to find lines that begin with a
>> newline character. I have tried exactly the same source files, but it
>> doesnšt work. Herešs the code:
>>
>> if ($line =~ /^\n/) {
>> # Do Something
>> }
>>
>> Why would this happen? Any ideas?
>>
>> -Bruce
>>
>>
>
>
