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Re: [ID 19991119.003] chomp() can be confusing

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From:
Greg Bacon
Date:
November 19, 1999 07:34
Subject:
Re: [ID 19991119.003] chomp() can be confusing
Message ID:
199911191539.JAA06169@ruby.itsc.uah.edu
In message <OF47CC4F38.CF9B333E-ON8525682E.0054550B@trepp.com>,
    Ben_Tilly@trepp.com writes:

: Is there any possibility of having Perl's chomp() command be modified to
: recognize \n, \r, and \r\n as line-endings to chomp?  A source of nasty
: confusion for people working in a cross-platform environment is when
: identical Perl scripts give very different results on the same exact file
: depending on whether you are running under *nix or Windows.  (Particularly
: an issue with Samba because people wind up reading under one system files
: created under the other.)

Have a look at <URL:http://language.perl.com/ppt/src/nlcvt/nlcvt> for
an example of how to do what you want (or at least something similar).

Greg

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