[MacPerl] Setting $/

[Lynn Glessner]

Hello, I've been lurking a little bit and wanted to ask a (hopefully 
simple) question.

I use a perl script to convert some text files on my mac, but occasionally 
I want to put the text file on my windows machine and run my script there. 
Yay for the cross-platform abilities of perl :) Because windows and mac use 
a different code for their newlines my textfile has little square 
characters instead of carriage returns.

I know I can use -0 on the command line to tell my script that $/ is 
something different, so that it correctly interprets \n, but haven't been 
able to figure out what that should be. I think I'm close, I expected 015 
to do it but it didn't.

Currently if I need to do something like that I use a texteditor to resave 
the text file before running my script, but I would like to be able to 
leave out that step. So I think I could type "perl -0123 myscript.pl". Does 
it work like that? What is the code I would use for the mac text file?

TIA,

Lynn