# New Ticket Created by Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev # Please include the string: [perl #132154] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132154 >
This was noticed in this PR: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/pull/1171 Basically, slurp is changing \r\n to \n. This may seem like a reasonable thing, except that then it has to also change \r to \n. However, replacing \r\n seems like a meaningless thing to do anyway. See https://docs.perl6.org/language/traps#Splitting_the_Input_Data_Into_Lines for some context. Long story short, .lines is already splitting the text using all possible variants of a newline. There's no need to mangle the data in slurp. For example, let's say you want to split the data strictly by \n. One way to do it is to call .lines on a Handle, then it works fine. But if it happens that you must slurp the whole thing, this is what you have to do: ‘foo’.IO.slurp(:bin).decode.split(“\n”) Notice how we use :bin to prevent it from doing the decoding, only to call .decode later anyway. All that just because .slurp itself is doing unnecessary data mangling. How to resolve this ticket: Option 1: stop doing what we do now. For example, don't do \r\n → \n substitution if it's under “use v6.d” Option 2: include \r and make sure it acts exactly like .lines.join(“\n”)
