-----Original Message----- [snip] I just really, really, *really* don't think that _anything_ is going to work around the issue that if you strip all the newlines from a CRLF terminated file[+], what you end up with is something that won't be any good for either 'doze ~OR~ *nix!
Apart from maybe _not_ stripping all the newlines, perhaps? The best workaround would be to get an Amiga or Mac... they're the only systems that use CR lineends! -----Original Message----- I just have to butt in, though it's none of my business. There are many times when one wants to read a line from a file and strip carriage-returns and line-feeds. I don't know Perl like the back of my hand, but I seem to remember there is even a special feature/function that is supposed to do it. In C, I usually programmatically check for both carriage returns and line feeds and replace them with '\0'. I only do this because M$ uses both. I never had to worry about it in *nix-land. As defined in C, there is a concept of "end-of-line character." I was under the impression that Perl understood this concept, too. It just so happens that M$ doesn't have one end-of-line character, but a pair of them. In some scripting languages, the carriage-return/line-feed pair is considered one end-of-line character and removing one removes both. It would be logical to assume that a function that removes the end-of-line character on a M$ box would remove both the carriage-return and the line-feed. I think this is what Mr. Kramer is trying to say. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
