Re: RFC 69 (v2) Standardize input record separator (for

[John Porter]

N. Hao Ching [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
 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).

I disagree.  Perl should provide the greatest ease for the greatest
number of people; and the majority of people reading text files are
reading platform-native text files. 

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John Porter

Re: RFC 69 (v2) Standardize input record separator (for

[Chaim Frenkel]

I completely disagree. How do you know that I want 5 lines.
Perhaps I want only 3?

You are assuming that within my file I will want all possible line
endings to be line endings. That is simply not true.

You might want to argue for the perl IO subsystem to intuit the line
ending (note the singular) in use and then handle it correctly.

But there is no way that I want under, any circumstance, _all_ line
endings active at the same time.

chaim

 "PRL" == Perl6 RFC Librarian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

PRL Given this input file (in UTF-8):

PRL D O S CR LF0044 004F 0053 000D 000A
PRL U n i x  LF0055 006E 0069 0078 000A
PRL M a c CR   004D 0061 0063 000D
PRL l i n e  LS006C 0069 006E 0065 2028
PRL p a r a  PS0070 0061 0072 0061 2029

PRL This should work as expected on as many platforms as possible:

PRL my @lines = FH;

PRL The @lines array should contain five elements.

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