At 09:41 AM 2/16/00 -0500, Jordan Henderson wrote:
>I'm wondering if the use of binmode() is really a good idea in any case.
>
>It has no effect on Unix systems. My guess is that on Windows systems it
>allows
>reading '\r' for '\n'. I guess there's a potential for problems in that case
>for quoted strings or something. I guess I would be surprised if XML was
>dependent on differing whitespace, but I'm no expert here.
It does two things on Windows:
1) It allows reading past a ^Z in a file (which is a good thing :)
2) It disables CRLF->LF translation
Not quite as big a change in behaviour as you get when binmode()ing a
milti-index RMS file... :)
Dan
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