What operating system are you using? And where does your data come from?

When Perl is built it should set up the correct value for $/ by default. If that hasn't happened then there is something very strange about your Perl installation.

One way that I can think of for this effect to happen, is if you are running your programs on Windows (which uses \r\n as the line end marker) but that your data is generated on some version of Unix (which uses \n). In that case, your Windows programs won't ever recognise the Unix line end characters. If this is the case then really the conversion of the line end characters should be dealt with by the file transfer mechanism (for example, using FTP in ASCII mode.

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

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