That's the way it works. Please see $/ in perlvar. (AKA $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR and $RS. See also
perldoc -v "$/"
from the (update: Windoze) command line — use single-quotes in *nix (update: but see choroba's reply below).)
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As $/ is not a valid identifier name in shell (at least bash), you can use double quotes, too, as well as no quotes at all.
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"Setting $/ to a reference to an integer, scalar containing an integer, or scalar that's convertible to an integer will attempt to read records instead of lines, with the maximum record size being the referenced integer number of characters"
This is really cool. I also didn't know it, because i didn't read the whole manpage ;-(
Best regards, Karl
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