On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Chris Wagner wrote: > It would be nice if there were a :text IO layer that would automatically > determine the new line sequence of a particular text file and do the > translation, or not, automatically. Currently u have to do an obnoxious > manual inspection of the file to know what $/ is. *cough*Jan*cough* ;)
I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. While reading a file in text mode on Windows, it does not really matter if the lines are terminated by CRLF or LF alone; the CR will be stripped and at the Perl level you always have just a LF, just like on Unix. Files with CR line endings are extremely rare nowadays; as far as I know only Mac OS up to version 9 used those. Everyone using a Mac is running OS X now, which uses LF line endings just like any other Unix-derived system. And anyways, you cannot know the line endings of a file until you have read all of it, which is not really practical for a streaming IO layer. Cheers, -Jan _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
