On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:11:26 -0700 (PDT), Ron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working the exercises out of the "Learning Perl" book, but I'm doing so through > a shell account from a Window$ box into a UNIX environment. I'm experiencing an > oddity wherein I'm getting, what I think are, extra newlines or carriage returns in > my code as I type it in the shell through a telnet session. This phenomenon, of > course, throws off the results of the code. > > Has anyone experienced this? Is there a solution? I've tried several adjustments in > the code I'm writing by using an extra 'chomp' or' chop', but this method is > hit-and-miss. There may be some ENV variable or something else I can use to get some > consistency going. > > TIA > Ron >
What UNIX environment? What terminal emulator? I know that Solaris includes a handy utility called dos2unix that will help pull out annoying extra characters from DOS created text files. Perhaps this utility is found in other UNIXy OSs as well. --Errin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
