yeah. windows thinks of a newline differently than unix, which thinks differently than macs. I found this out when dealing with webservers on different platforms.I wanted to split the return from a web request into the header and the http data.( the header is separated from the data by two newlines). So in order to make this work cross platform, i had to use this:

    my ($header , $data) = split (/\n\n|\r\n\r\n|\r\r/ , $result, 2);
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this handles unix newlines, \r\n (windows newline), and \r for the macs.