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in reply to Quick and portable way to determine line-ending string?
You hit on a good way to do it in your original post. Pre-populating a hash is effective and fairly simple, even if it is a bit messy. By putting it in a module and putting that on CPAN, the whole Perl community can help with submissions on what their strange systems use for line endings. It might be a little bit of overkill to use a module computationally, but this situation is more data intensive than computationally intensive. Data gathering is always done best by the experts in the particular areas (in this case, differing platforms), with the results being reported to a central repository or person. CPAN or some other joint project system is ideal for this kind of task.
Chris
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Re: Re: Quick and portable way to determine line-ending string?
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Aug 09, 2001 at 07:19 UTC
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Hmm, maybe that can be part of the Config module? See $Config{trnl} which may already be what we want. Hmm, but mine shows "\\012" (literal backslash) on a Windows system, so maybe it's not actually used. | [reply] |
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I get the same on Windows (Win98 SE, Perl 5.6.0 ActiveState build 623). I get q{\n} on Linux with 5.6.0 though. However, if it's not dependable, then it certainly can't be used in this sort of case. Perhaps this is something p5p could go over. If I think of it, I'll send an email in the morning.
I can't think how to word it right now. ;-)
Chris
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