This is minor but I find it annoying. When I print 80 characters and then a newline on the Windows command prompt it prints a blank line after the line. The Linux command prompt doesn't do this. My workaround on Windows has been to only print 79 characters per line. My question is why? I don't know how to print a newline from a batch file or I would test it.

use warnings;
use strict;
print "-"x79,"\n";
print "1\n";
print "-"x80,"\n";
print "2\n";
print "-"x80;
print "3\n";

__DATA__

--redirected to a file in Windows.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------
1
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------
2
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------3

--appearance from Windows command line.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------
1
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------

2
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------
3

--appearance from Linux command line.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------
1
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------
2
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------
3

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In reply to [OT] Why does newline in Windows print as having width? by Lotus1

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