Unix (and any similar system) thinks lines end with \n. Apple thinks they end with \r. DOS couldn't decide, so it went with \r\n. Under Unix-like systems, the \r often shows up as '^M'.

Perl will change what it thinks the line ending is based on what system you're running on. You can override this by setting $/ (input record seperator) to whatever you want the newline to be (even to something that isn't a newline at all, like 'FOOBAR'). Just set local $/ = "\r"; before you read the data in and it should work.

There are also conversion programs around that will change the line endings used on one system to another (look around for 'dos2unix', 'unix2mac', etc.)

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In reply to Re: finding different linebreaks with <> by hardburn
in thread finding different linebreaks with <> by seaver

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