in reply to Re^2: Perl ignores CarriageReturn during fileparsing. Why?
in thread Perl ignores CarriageReturn during fileparsing. Why?

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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Re^4: Perl ignores CarriageReturn during fileparsing. Why?
by hoppfrosch (Scribe) on Jun 13, 2013 at 13:52 UTC
    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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