paragraph mode and <DATA>

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Re: paragraph mode and <DATA> by roboticus (Chancellor) on Mar 12, 2011 at 23:24 UTC
7stud: I tried your program and had the same results. When I looked at it via: `od -t x1 892874.pl` I noticed it had DOS/Windows line endings (\r\n). I notice that if you remove the carriage returns, it works just fine: `$ sed -b 's/\r//g' 892874.pl >t.pl $ perl t.pl ****************** hello world bye **************** **************** hello world2 bye2 **************** **************** end *****************` [download] It also worked fine when I set $/ to "\r\n\r\n". ...roboticus When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.*	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: paragraph mode and <DATA> by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 13, 2011 at 05:56 UTC
I noticed it had DOS/Windows line endings (\r\n). I notice that if you remove the carriage returns, it works just fine: Or run it on Windows. `****************** hello world bye **************** **************** hello world2 bye2 **************** **************** end ******************` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: paragraph mode and <DATA> by roboticus (Chancellor) on Mar 13, 2011 at 06:11 UTC
ikegami: I did the whole song and dance because it's not enough to simply run it on Windows. When I reproduced it, I was running on Windows Vista. While the most common Windows builds (ActiveState & Strawberry) wouldn't have given this problem, there are builds (such as the one I use, cygwin) which act more like a unix version. Since I use an editor that doesn't add "\r" to the line ends, I don't normally encounter this issue, but I've encountered it a few times, and am sensitized to look for it. ...roboticus When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.	[reply]
Re^4: paragraph mode and <DATA> by Anonymous Monk on Mar 13, 2011 at 06:24 UTC
Re^5: paragraph mode and <DATA> by roboticus (Chancellor) on Mar 13, 2011 at 06:44 UTC
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Re^4: paragraph mode and <DATA> by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 13, 2011 at 07:02 UTC
Re: paragraph mode and <DATA> by Anonymous Monk on Mar 12, 2011 at 23:16 UTC
works for me	[reply]
Re^2: paragraph mode and <DATA> by ELISHEVA (Prior) on Mar 13, 2011 at 03:48 UTC
Dear anonymous monk Please specify perl version and platform/OS when posting "works for me". It is not very helpful to an OP to know that his code works "somewhere, out there". Very often problems like these are platform specific (as the next reply illustrated). Learning requires that people feel free to ask questions that may seem "dumb" to others. Although I'm sure your intentions were all the best, a curt "it works for me" without qualification of perl version and OS, may in fact come across as dismissive, as in "it works for me, so the problem must be you.".	[reply]
Re^3: paragraph mode and <DATA> by Anonymous Monk on Mar 13, 2011 at 04:13 UTC
It is not very helpful to an OP... Well, I forgot; apparently I'm not the only one why isn't split() working here?	[reply]


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