in reply to Re: How to print Unix newlines in Strawberry Perl on Windows
in thread How to print Unix newlines in Strawberry Perl on Windows

In addition to Athanasius' caveats, realise that when you write "\n" to a text file, the OS will add the "\r" for you.

Thus your advice to use local $/="\r\n"; will result in "\r\r\n" being written if the file is in text mode.

In order to avoid that addition, you must binmode the file. Or remove the :crlf layer from the perlIO stack.

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