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=head1 TITLE
Standardize input record separator (for portability)
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: N. Hao Ching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 08 Aug 2000
Version: 1
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 69
=head1 ABSTRACT
The default input record separator is not safe for all input files
on all platforms.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
For easier portability, the default input record separator should
at least match /\015?\012/, so that the following works on as many
platforms as possible:
while (<FH>) {
do_stuff_with_only_one_line_or_manually_buffered_lines;
}
I don't know where $/ is going, so this is not necessarily about $/.
=head1 IMPLEMENTATION
Duhhhh, this is hard. Dunno core yet.
=head1 REFERENCES
perlport: http://www.pudge.net/macperl/perlport.html
