Hey Everyone, I wrote a script which was originally a one off thing, but now more people have expressed interest in using it and I would like to make it a little more robust. I would like to make my script handle all types of new line characters LF,CR, and CRLF so that the users can remain in their blissfully unaware state about such things ;) Here are the file loading subs:
sub load_parents
{
    my ($parent_index) = @_;
    my %parents;

    open (FH, "< $parent_index") or die "could not open file $parent_i
+ndex for reading:$!";

    while (my $line = <FH>) {
      chomp($line);
      my ($index, $parent) = split(/\t/, $line);
      $parents{$index} = $parent;
    }
    return \%parents;

}

sub load_primers
{
    my ($primer_index) = @_;
    my %primers;

    open (FH, "< $primer_index") or die "could not open file $primer_i
+ndex for reading:$!";

    while (my $line = <FH>) {
      chomp($line);
      my ($index, $primer) = split(/\t/, $line);
      $primers{$index} = $primer;
    }
    return \%primers;

}

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I woud appreciate any advice on what I could do to hanle the different new line characters, or if you see a blatent flaw in my logic don't be affraid to point that out either.
Thanks, Mav

In reply to handling different new line characters by mav3067

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