On 09 Aug 2000 10:34:27 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote: >Please explain in what way "\n" is not safe on all platforms? > >On all platforms, the actual line seperators are translated (except >under binmode()) to "\n". Try processing a Mac file on Unix, or vice versa. You'll soon see why. Your scheme only works with platform native files. -- Bart.
- RFC 69 (v1) Standardize input record separator (for Perl6 RFC Librarian
- Re: RFC 69 (v1) Standardize input record separato... Hildo Biersma
- Re: RFC 69 (v1) Standardize input record separato... Chaim Frenkel
- Re: RFC 69 (v1) Standardize input record sepa... Bart Lateur
- Re: RFC 69 (v1) Standardize input record ... Chaim Frenkel
- Re: RFC 69 (v1) Standardize input rec... Bart Lateur
- Re: RFC 69 (v1) Standardize inpu... Chaim Frenkel
- Re: RFC 69 (v1) Standardize inpu... Bryan C . Warnock
- Re: RFC 69 (v1) Standardize ... Chaim Frenkel
- Re: RFC 69 (v1) Standard... Bryan C . Warnock
- Re: RFC 69 (v1) Standard... Chaim Frenkel
- Re: RFC 69 (v1) Standard... Simply Hao