Mon Mar 09 06:01:04 2009: Request 43889 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by dbec...@roadrunner.com
Queue: Win32-Clipboard
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #43889] Win32::Clipboard::GetText() doesn't
convert newlines
Broken in: (no value)
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Owner: Nobody
Requestors: kwittr...@web.de
Status: open
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43889 >
K. Wittrock via RT wrote:
>
> A \n without a preceeding \r is not a line end marker on Windows. It is not
> touched by my suggestion (note the $ and the mg in the
> regex). To see the difference, open a text file that was created on Linux by
> Notepad.
Not implying otherwise - just stating that \r\n may or may not be in the
clipboard.
Just because you're on Windoze, doesn't mean that there will always be Windoze
text in the clipboard.
> Of course I can do the "$text =~ s/\r$//mg;" by myself after each call to
> GetText. And I can automate this with a small subroutine
> myGetText. Then this should be told in the docu. But I would prefer a
> solution within GetText.
At least if they document it, they are covering themselves. I suspect changing
the normal behavior could be problematic for some, so I would be against
changing
the default behavior.
