Having written that text, I can tell you with some authority...

It's not necessary to anchor it. I put that in there to make it clear that it was happening at the end of the line.

And, \n is always correct there, regardless of the underlying architecture, as the mapping of the local "line ending" character when reading text files. Binary files may show up local-line-ending conventions.

Also realize that that text was written about two or three years before the first MS-DOS port.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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In reply to •Re: PP4: "de-hyphenating a file" by merlyn
in thread PP4: "de-hyphenating a file" by princepawn

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