whenever I do file read operation from my perl program, it is reading the whole file in a single stretch. I understand that the records separator is <EOF> for my OS. ( not sure ).

The input record separator, as of perldoc perlvar is a newline by default. Said this, perl does may apply some translations to \n in input and output layers, but to the effect of doing the right thing for your OS, and anyway that's a whole another story.

So, In all my programs I am explicitly setting the $/ = "\n". how can I make a global change. should I need to change something from OS level or any changes in perl configuration ?

How strange! And does the explicit setting change things? What does

perl -le 'print $/ eq "\n" ? "OK" : "NO"'

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print for you?

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

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