Ron Powell wrote:
> There is a utility out there that will convert unix-style end-of-lines (LF)
> to dos-style (CR/LF)...
>
> Just for giggles, I'm trying to write a perl script to do this...
>
> Here's what I've tried...
>
> while (<INFILE>) {
> $line = $_;
> $line=~tr/\012/\015\012/;
> print OUTFILE ("$line\n");
> }
>
> The problem is that the output, when viewed with notepad, contains
> inappropriate line breaks...
>
> The same input file, when converted using the unix utility unix2dos,
> converts "properly." This leads me to believe that I'm missing something
> obvious here....
>
> I'm not asking for the answer per se, but perhaps a pointer?
>
> ----------
> Ron Powell
> Senior IT Analyst &
> Network Administrator
> gomembers, Inc. (Baltimore Office)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 410-494-1600 x4058
> <<...OLE_Obj...>>
If your file is already in the DOS file format (each line ends with CR
and LF), your script will replace the LF with CR and LF; which means
your lines will end with CR + CR + LF. And, that's why they had
inappropriate line breaks.
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Ahmed Moustafa
http://pobox.com/~amoustafa
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