Dan:
Hi. Thanks again. Yes, that fixed it. the XML-Parser package on VMS now
passes all tests. We should get the author to change the routine to read
something like:
binmode(FILE) unless ($^O eq 'VMS);
Regards,
David Hansen
Warburg Dillon Read Chicago
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Subject: Re: does binmode() work properly on VMS?
Author: dan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at unix,mime
Date: 15.02.00 16:43
At 04:30 PM 2/15/00 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have an interesting problem... the XML parser tests are failing on
> my Alpha 7.2 machine due to 'badly formed XML'. When I dig deeper, the
> Parser.pm module's "parsefile()" function is opening an XML file, then
> doing a "binmode()" on it. If I do a test of:
>
> $crud = scalar <FILE>;
>
> before the binmode() call, it returns one input line. However, if I do
> this after the binmode() call, $crud holds the entire content of the
> file -- "\n" is no longer recognised as a line terminator.
What's probably going on is that your file isn't a Stream format file, but
VFC or variable or something of the sort, so there really aren't an
newlines in there--they're inserted automagically by RMS and/or the C
runtime library. Binmode reopens the file so perl sees the raw bytes on
disk, pretty much completely bypassing RMS. Handy if you want to mess with
the length bytes or something, but generally it really sucks for other
things. :)
Try hacking the module so it doesn't binmode and see if that works better.
Dan
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