What OS are you using? This sounds fishy.

My guess is that you're looking at a text file that was transferred in binary mode between two different operating systems. Macs, Unix/Linux, and Windows machines each have their own "end of line" sequence. If you transfer a text file blindly between these OS's, you end up with a minor problem. Unix has utilities to deal with this after the fact, in case a file's line-endings got messed up somehow.: dos2unix and unix2dos.

So, if your Perl script is having difficulty recognizing line endings, you've probably simply got your line endings mismatched.

One solution is to simply check the line endings of your text files to ensure they're correct, and if not, fix them. It's trivial to write a Perl script to do this for you. Another solution would be to build line-end fixing logic into your scripts, but that seems like too much fiddling for such a common and simple problem.

And of course, from now on, be sure to transfer your text files in text mode via software smart enough to fix the line endings for you in the first place.


Dave

In reply to Re: changing record separator to all my perl programs by davido
in thread changing record separator to all my perl programs by greatshots

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.