Surely Perl should take care of those translations for you. You don't have to change the line end characters in a script when you move it from Unix to Windows (or vice versa) do you?

Yes you do. (Note that perl itself understands unix line-end speak when reading in a script, but that's a different beast)

Perl isn't going to try and automatically translate, because it doesn't know WHY you are writing what you are writing. It's very possible that you DON'T want the \r automatically inserted/deleted (For example, this would break all the Dos<->Unix one liner converters.)

Update: As tye points out below, I missed the boat here.

In reply to RE: RE: Re: printing \n to a file by swiftone
in thread printing \n to a file by Anonymous Monk

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