-----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hendrik Maryns Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 5:58 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: [Released] [Contains offensive content] Re: Tie::File problem (or is it just me?)
John W. Krahn schreef: > Hendrik Maryns wrote: > >> Kevin Horton schreef: >> >>> >>> What kind of line endings does the file have? If I recall >>> correctly, I ran into a problem where perl did not recognize >>> classical Macintosh line endings as ending a line. It thought the >>> whole file was one line, until I converted the line endings to Unix format. >> >> >> That must be the problem! I work on WinXP (for the moment). The >> file is generated by ChatZilla, the IRC chat program part of the >> Mozilla suite. I don't know what kind of line endings it uses, how >> can I see this? > > > According to RFC 1459: > > IRC messages are always lines of characters terminated with a CR-LF > (Carriage Return - Line Feed) pair, and these messages shall not > exceed 512 characters in length, counting all characters including > the trailing CR-LF. Thus, there are 510 characters maximum allowed > for the command and its parameters. There is no provision for > continuation message lines. See section 7 for more details about > current implementations. > > > However when you save that data to a file the line endings are > determined by the application that saves that data and to some extent > by the operating system. I do understand, but is there a trick in Windows to get to see which chars are used as newline chars in a particular file, i.e. to show ASCII chars? Thanks for your help on splice and -i, I understand now! H. ######## The only one I know comes with that fine editor TextPad, which you can download for trial for free from www.textpad.com, or even pay for, I think maybe about 30 USD. Use Ctrl O, then under File Format in the new window, choose "Binary", and "Open" and inspect to your heart's content! HTH, rgds, GStC. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
