Simply Hao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> But there is no way that I want under, any circumstance, _all_
>> line endings active at the same time.
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>Why not?
Because native tools won't behave like that and we want to mimic them
(at least as an option).
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>Well, how about this proposal then?
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>DOS, Mac, Unix:
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> use newlines "\015\012", "\012", "\015";
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>OS/390:
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> use newlines "\r", "\025";
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>Weird OS:
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> use newlines "\t";
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>Something like that?
Maybe. But rather than spell that out as literals what one normal wants
is
my $fh : newlines=unix,dos,UNICODE = open (...);
where 'unix' knows that means "\012" even if perl is running on Mac.
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>Okay, maybe what I really want is $/ to be a regex.
No - this is almost certainly NOT a global 'use' option but a "mode" of
a particular handle.
We want $/ to go away and become a property of the handle.
Perhaps $/ or the 'use' can set the _default_ which is passed to the "open"
when nothing more specific is given.
>
>-Hao
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Nick Ing-Simmons
