We've been over this at length: Test before posting.

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.
use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Useqq=1;

open my $fh, '>:raw', 'test.txt' or die $!;
print $fh "x\ry\r\n";
close $fh;

open $fh, '<', 'test.txt' or die $!;
my $in = <$fh>;
close $fh;
print Dumper($in);  # "x\ry\n"

open $fh, '<:raw', 'test.txt' or die $!;
local $/ = "\r\n";
chomp( $in = <$fh> );
close $fh;
print Dumper($in);  # "x\ry"

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Which also means that you meant with "The text I/O layers will take out <CR> and what Perl sees is just <LF>." is wrong, the :crlf layer doesn't just strip all CRs.

In reply to Re^2: How is the default "Input Record Separator" set? by haukex
in thread How is the default "Input Record Separator" set? by brettasterling

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