I wrote File::Edit::Portable for purposes such as this. It's quite flexible in reading and writing files with various record separators. It automatically determines the file's record separator, and the record separator of the platform the software is running on.

Most of the distribution is Object Oriented based, but it has a couple of handy exports for the most basic functionality as well:

use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Edit::Portable qw(recsep platform_recsep);

$/ = recsep('file.txt'); # set the recsep to that of a file

# or

$/ = platform_recsep();  # set the recsep to that of the local platfor
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in thread Record separator in variable by tecbuilt

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