Will Merrill quotes yesterday's post, which has been well answered in
the meantime.
> > I'm having trouble writing a script that will remove the regular
> > expression "<B>" in a text file in macperl.
> > open (INNEWSFILE, $inFile);
...
> > $newsFile = <INNEWSFILE>;
...
> > print OUTTEXTFILE $newsFile;
He says,
> I could not get your script (as originally coded) to run successfully under
> Linux or MacPerl. I was surprised to hear it worked for you under Linux.
A Mac file (lines terminated by C-m) does not contain any Linux
newlines (C-j). If the file was transferred binarily, the script
under Linux will slurp in the whole Mac file as one line and "work
correctly".
Christian
