Is there a programmatic way to tell if I'm on Windows or UNIX? I know that
$^0 returns the name of the operating system, but can I count on matching
/MS/i or /Win/i to determine if it's Windows? If Windows, I'll assign 2 to
$newline below, else I'll assign 1.
Problem:
I have a fixed length custom
n DOS.
Did you already try this and encounter problems?
Mike
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Chris,
I tested something similar to your suggestion. I created the customer record
on my laptop's Windows98 OS, and also on my web site's UNIX OS. Then I read
one record and without chomp-ing (removing the input record separator), got
the length for the record. On both operating systems, the len
