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. -- brian d foy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]