[MacPerl] re: writing/appending to a file

[Louis Pouzin]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 12:10:12 -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:

>Opening a file for appending does not insert a newline at the beginning of the file.  
>I suspect that you are creating the file in BBEdit, and have "Force New Line at End" 
>set in BBEdit's preferences.  The 'empty' file has a newline in it before Perl even 
>gets to it.

Ronald,

Your suspicion was dead right for BBEdit. There is no CR in an empty file when the 
creator is MPS. Thanks for pinpointing the real cause.
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