Re: odd behavior with DATA section

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Re^2: odd behavior with DATA section by Nkuvu (Priest) on Jul 23, 2005 at 00:50 UTC
Unfortunately I'm not just getting a blank line at the end of the DATA block. I'm getting it between each and every line in the DATA block. Just the trailing newline I understand, this issue I don't.	[reply]
Re^2: odd behavior with DATA section by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 23, 2005 at 00:08 UTC
For future reference, that's only the case for Windows, or it's at least not true for unix.	[reply]
Re^3: odd behavior with DATA section by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 23, 2005 at 00:24 UTC
You mean the Unix file system strips trailing new lines from a file? Surely that would be a rather obnoxious thing for any file system to do? Perhaps I should make it clear that by new line I mean what ever line end indicating convention might be used by whatever OS you happen to be using (CR for MAC, LF for *nix, CRLF for DOS/Windows). Perl is Huffman encoded by design.	[reply]
Re^4: odd behavior with DATA section by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 23, 2005 at 05:04 UTC
You mean the Unix file system strips trailing new lines from a file? No, we were talking about whether a blank line is returned at the end or not. `$\ = "\n"; print length while <DATA>; __DATA__ 1 2 3` [download] Windows prints 2, 2, 2, 0. FreeBSD prints 2, 2, 2. Update: I'm getting inconsistent results in Windows: Win2k, ActivePerl 5.6.0, (at work) I got 2,2,2,0. Win2k, ActivePerl 5.8.6, (at gf's) I get 2,2,2.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: odd behavior with DATA section by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 23, 2005 at 05:13 UTC
Re^6: odd behavior with DATA section by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 23, 2005 at 07:00 UTC


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