I am also a Windows user.
The text I/O layers will take out <CR> and what Perl sees is just <LF>.
So \n for input is just one character, even on Windows.
For output, Windows will emit <CR><LF> for an \n. On Unix, just a <LF>.

I am curious as to why you think that something has changed?
Some code would be very helpful!

Update: Haukex replied while I was writing this. I agree with what he said. Unless you are using binmode, you will never see a <CR>. I am not even sure that you can even set $/ to CRLF. Please show some code where you think that you did that.

In reply to Re: How is the default "Input Record Separator" set? by Marshall
in thread How is the default "Input Record Separator" set? by brettasterling

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