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Re: (tye)Re: Platform Differencesby arhuman (Vicar) |
on Aug 07, 2001 at 16:30 UTC ( [id://102751]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Newlines cause other problems than just cross-platform transfert. As read in perlport : Due to the ``text'' mode translation, DOSish perls have limitations of using seek and tell when a file is being accessed in ``text'' mode. Specifically, if you stick to seek-ing to locations you got from tell (and no others), you are usually free to use seek and tell even in ``text'' mode. In general, using seek or tell or other file operations that count bytes instead of characters, without considering the length of \n, may be non-portable. If you use binmode on a file, however, you can usually use seek and tell with arbitrary values quite safely. "Only Bad Coders Code Badly In Perl" (OBC2BIP)
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