On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 07:04:37PM -0800, William R Ward wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Bowers) writes: > > Recently I had need of a unix2dos and dos2unix. I'd guess we've all > > written multiple of versions of these, since there's not much to them. > > > > This time I had a look at scripts section on CPAN, figuring there'd > > be versions there. But there aren't. > > > > So having knocked up them up, are they worth putting on CPAN? > > And if so, what Category should they be given - Text? > > What, you mean "perl -pe 's/\015\012/\n/g'" and "perl -pe 's/\n/\015\012/g'"? > Doesn't seem like it's necessary to me to even bother uploading such a thing.
So you think, but try working around non-UNIX and non-Perl people for a while, and the above are deep magic that bestows upon you the aura of a mighty guru. > If you're in the neighborhood though, how about mac2dos, mac2unix, unix2mac, > and dos2mac? (Mac uses \015 only) What would be cool is to have *one* script that sniffs which CR/LF is being used in the source file(s). The destination CR/LF would be by default the execution platform's, but could be forced to be something else. "crlf foo.txt", "crlf -t cr bar.txt". > --Bill. > > -- > William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards.net/~bill/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
