Bob Showalter wrote: > No. A "\n" in your program is an ASCII linefeed (10) character > on either platform.
So, \n equals a LF, thank you. > > What happens on Windows is that when you are reading a file, > each CR/LF pair from the file is changed to a single LF char > before the data is returned to you. On output, the situation > is reversed (LF is translated to CR/LF pair). On UNIX, no > such translation is done. > > On Windows, if you don't want this translation done, you need > to call binmode(). > > All the poop can be found at: > > perldoc -f binmode CR/LF has never been translated to a LF while reading a file for me. If that were true, the whole situation would be transparent and I would have never asked the question it seems. I didn't see anything about this "translating" in the docs on the binmode function. Bompa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
