On Fri Apr 15 12:06:47 2011, patrickas wrote:
> On windows 7 and vista using "\n" does not produce \r\n
>
> The following
>
> my $file = open('foo.txt', :w);
> $file.say("a\nb");
> $file.close;
>
> produces a file containing the bytes
>
> 61 0a 62 0a
>
> The expected bytes are
>
> 61 0d 0a 62 0d 0a
>
> A current work around is to use
>
> $file.print("a\r\nb\r\n");
Now \n in strings is "magical": it will default to CRLF on Windows, and just LF
elsewhere (you can see what $?NL contains to check). It can be controlled by
the newline pragma when this default is not appropriate, tests for which are in
S16-io/newline.t.
Thanks,
Jonathan
