i have some ascii data files generated by win-blows machines that i need to do some text processing on using Perl on a linux box. I have taken care of the dos \r\n problem, but i am having issue with the dos end-of-file marker. I am reading the text file line-by-line, and the final line appears to be the EOF code. If someone could tell me the ascii code for EOF, or some other way to detect that the line is EOF, that would be great.

ive tried using the Perl built-in command eof(), but it returns false, because under linux, the EOF marker is just more data, so eof() thinks that there is another line to read. So, my current test looks like this: 
if ( ($input_line =~ /^\W$/) && eof(INPUT_HANDLE) ) {
    # this is eof
}

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it seems to work, but i think i dont feel comfortable that it will always work.

thanks

In reply to dos EOF in linux by shemp

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