Re: Copy multiple lines to a loop

What is your environment? Windows, Linux, Mac, other? what version of Perl?

I think this is not a Perl problem, rather your command line "terminal emulation".

If you can paste the lines in to a file, save the file, then perl yourScript.pl file.txt and it works as you expect, then it has something to do with how your command line environment handles input (and output).

Often, the command line terminal emulation treats a pasted "line terminator" differently than a press of the "Enter" key on your keyboard. you might be able to work around this some of the problems by changing the value of $/, but doing so might cause other problems because this is taken as the literal line separator, not as a regular expression.

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Re^2: Copy multiple lines to a loop by eyekona (Acolyte) on May 21, 2014 at 07:46 UTC
Script is running on an console-only linux server, I ssh to from my also linux client. But as several other people use this script some are also connecting to this linux server from windows and mac clients... I did not write this script and just got the quest to make it process multiple lines...	[reply]