in reply to Perl ignores CarriageReturn during fileparsing. Why?

The input record separator is stored in the special Perl variable $/. It is newline (i.e., \n, not “carriage return”, which is \r) by default.

Have your “far away” changes altered the value of $/?

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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Re^2: Perl ignores CarriageReturn during fileparsing. Why?
by hoppfrosch (Scribe) on Jun 13, 2013 at 12:21 UTC
    You are my god for today - Wrong value within $/ (INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR) was the culprit; resetting it to '\n' solves my problem.
    I assumed there has to be a special variable for this - but couldn't find it ...
    Any change I made must have altered the value of $/ - have to find out which.
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      Normally the input record separator should only be changed in the scope for which you need to change it 
      # code "borrowed" from node 1952 :-)
{
  local $/ = undef;
  open FILE, "myfile" or die "Couldn't open file: $!";
  $string = <FILE>;
  close FILE;
}
# $/ reverts back to default here...

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      If you spot any bugs in my solutions, it's because I've deliberately left them in as an exercise for the reader! :-)
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[d/l]
        The change happened by accident and not intentional - until now I wasn't able to locate the change within my own code. Perhaps it happens somewhere in an external perl module ....
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