In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Pascal
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am having a problem with a parser which works in DOS, but does not work in
> the OS X BSD shell.
> if ($line =~ /^\n/) {
> # Do Something
> }
> Why would this happen? Any ideas?
The one that doesn't match \n doesn't have \n, which is just a
fancy name for a particular bit pattern that different systems
interpret different (Mac being the weirdo here, in my opinion).
The perlport man page has more details.
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brian d foy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
