Darrell Fuhriman writes:
Should getting the actual characters be treated differently from
getting the \r\n representation of those characters?
Which characters? The representation \r denotes a carriage return, aka
character \x0D.
Whereas \n denotes a 'new line', a virtual concept which is
On Oct 10, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 06:31:41PM +0100, Smylers wrote:
It isn't possible to have an 'actual' \n character; all actual
characters will be specific, not conceptual.
EBCDIC has a new line control character distinct from both line
feed and
Joshua Juran skribis 2008-10-10 11:32 (-0700):
Constructions like [A-Za-z] are non-portable to EBCDIC, since the
alphabetic code points are non-contiguous.
Well, that's not true for perl of course, which tries to be smart and
has special cased simple letter ranges.
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:23:26PM +0200, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
Joshua Juran skribis 2008-10-10 11:32 (-0700):
Constructions like [A-Za-z] are non-portable to EBCDIC, since the
alphabetic code points are non-contiguous.
Well, that's not true for perl of course, which tries to be smart
Abigail skribis 2008-10-10 22:07 (+0200):
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:23:26PM +0200, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
Joshua Juran skribis 2008-10-10 11:32 (-0700):
Constructions like [A-Za-z] are non-portable to EBCDIC, since the
alphabetic code points are non-contiguous.
Well, that's not true
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:14:40PM +0200, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
Abigail skribis 2008-10-10 22:07 (+0200):
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:23:26PM +0200, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
Joshua Juran skribis 2008-10-10 11:32 (-0700):
Constructions like [A-Za-z] are non-portable to EBCDIC, since the
Abigail skribis 2008-10-10 22:20 (+0200):
I'm sure there's at least one hacker who hates perl for exactly that
reason.
So you really believe there's still at least one EBCDIC perl user out there?
That would assume everyone who hates a piece of software also (still)
uses that software.
2008/10/10 Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com
At least Mac OS 9 is ASCII.
DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!
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On Oct 10, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Earle Martin wrote:
2008/10/10 Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com
At least Mac OS 9 is ASCII.
DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!
Oops, I forgot to add *ducks* to the end. :-)
Josh
