Re^2: calculator help

Actually \n on all operating systems unless you do some work to make ity otherwise. Perl translates "local" line end conventions to \n during file I/O so you don't usually have to worry about it.

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Re^3: calculator help by Laurent_R (Canon) on Jun 03, 2014 at 17:52 UTC
Thank you for the information, GrandFather, I did not know a conversion was done during I/O, I thought that it was `chomp` that was clever enough to remove "\n" or "\r\n" depending on whether the script was running on Unix or Windows, for example. We regularly have issues at work in a different type of situation, when we process files generated by another application running on another system, with end of lines sometimes converted and sometimes not converted during the transfer (FTP in ASCII or bin mode, SFTP, scp, etc.). We then need to pre-process the file before feeding them to our programs (in some cases we even have changed our programs so that they can handle smoothly both cases).	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: calculator help by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 04, 2014 at 00:50 UTC
See PerlIO. Perl is the programming world's equivalent of English	[reply]