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=head1 TITLE
Standardize input record separator (for portability)
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: N. Hao Ching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 Aug 2000
Version: 2
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Number: 69
=head1 ABSTRACT
The default input record separator is not safe for all input files
on all platforms. There should also be support for Unicode line
separator (U+2028) and paragraph separator (U+2029).
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The input record separator should match one of these (in UTF-8):
000D 000A
000A
000D
2028
2029
Given this input file (in UTF-8):
D O S CR LF 0044 004F 0053 000D 000A
U n i x LF 0055 006E 0069 0078 000A
M a c CR 004D 0061 0063 000D
l i n e LS 006C 0069 006E 0065 2028
p a r a PS 0070 0061 0072 0061 2029
This should work as expected on as many platforms as possible:
my @lines = <FH>;
The @lines array should contain five elements.
The binmode function should treat data as binary and do no
translation of line disciplines. (?)
Whether $/ will remain in Perl 6 is uncertain, so this is not
necessarily about $/.
=head1 IMPLEMENTATION
?
=head1 REFERENCES
perlport: http://www.pudge.net/macperl/perlport.html
RFC 58: http://tmtowtdi.perl.org/rfc/58.pod
Larry Wall's response to RFC 58 on 8 Aug 2000
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language%40perl.org/msg01421.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language%40perl.org/msg01423.html
Simon Cozens' work on line disciplines in 5.6 binmode
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-04/msg00807.html
