On Windows, "This \n is not the end of a line on windows\r\n" will be written as:
"This <CR><LF> is not the end of a line on windows<CR><CR><LF>". On output, on a Windows platform, each "\n" is translated into two characters <CR><LF>.

If you read with the standard Windows I/O layer, which I think is :CRLF, the first <CR><LF> will be translated to just <LF>. The <CR><CR><LF> will result in <CR><LF>. So, yes, the first "\n" in your example is indeed recognized as "end of line on Windows". Length 6 is correct(4+1+1): This=4,a space=1, <LF>=1 characters.

I've never used the :raw layer and there appears to be some weirdness here. I'm not sure what "read a "line" with :raw" actually means? It looks to me like it removed the <CR> just like the normal layer would. When reading binary data, I have always set binmode and read up to a requested number of bytes into a buffer without the concept of a "line ending".

If you change your example to have the first "\n" be a "\r", then indeed that single <CR> will not be recognized as an "end of line" by Windows.

When I came across an ancient Mac <CR> line terminated file, the problem was apparent because Windows read the whole file as one line. I just talked with the user, explained the issue and a simple editor setting solved the problem.

I never did come up with a "clean, high performance" way to handle any variation of Mac, Unix and Windows line endings easily. I just don't support old Mac and that is good enough for my users.

In reply to Re^4: Dealing with files with differing line endings by Marshall
in thread Dealing with files with differing line endings by dd-b

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