although it was a no-op when I learned Perl in the 5.6 era

True, although I think that pre-5.8 knowledge is the source of much of the misinformation in this subthread - that's when PerlIO was made the default. (OTOH, interestingly, the relevant parts of the section Newlines in perlport has remained pretty much unchanged since its introduction about 20 years ago in 5.005.)

So it is now equivalent to binmode FILEHANDLE, ':raw'?

Well, to be nitpicky, it always was documented to be so, since the second argument was introduced in v5.6.

In reply to Re^18: How do I display only matches by haukex
in thread (SOLVED) How do I display only matches by tem2

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