#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Perl6::Slurp; # write file with different line endings # \r = 0x0D # \n = 0x0A my $win_line = "Windows\r\n"; my $unix_line = "Unix\n"; my $mac_line = "Mac\r"; open(my $fh, ">", "le_big.txt") or die "Failed file open: $!"; binmode($fh); for (1 .. 100000) { print $fh $win_line; print $fh $unix_line; print $fh $mac_line; print $fh $win_line; print $fh $mac_line; print $fh $win_line; print $fh $unix_line; } close($fh); # read file with slurp # PerlIO-layer 'crlf' is doing the conversion \r\n --> \n # i.e. the input record separator only has to handle the line endings \n and \r # Win32: crlf-layer is activated as default, so it is not necessary # to explicitly add this layer # Unix and other OS: crlf-layer is NOT activated as default # necessary to add this layer for my $line (slurp("<:crlf", "le_big.txt", {irs => qr/\n|\r/, chomp => 1}) ) { print $line . "\n"; } # NOTE: # It would also be possible to write a regexp which is working # if the crlf-layer is active or not: # irs => qr/\r\n|\n|\r/ # crlf-layer active: possible line endings are \n OR \r # crlf-layer NOT active: possible line endings are \n\r OR \n OR \r