From the reply to a post of mine in a clpmisc thread (link @ GG), both to the author's (Peter J. Holzer) and my own surprise:

>>If you don't convert the *script* (as opposed to print statements wi
+thin
>>the script), apache probably can't even start the script because the
>>linux kernel will try to invoke "/usr/bin/perl\r" which doesn't exis
+t.
>
> BTW: I've always wondered... how 'bout HERE docs? Are they portable
> across platforms or is the line ending deemed to be that of the
> script.

To my surprise they are portable at least between Unix and Windows. Pe
+rl
seems to automatically detect the line endings and convert them to
\x{0A} at compile time. A string written as a here document always
contains simple "\n" characters as line endings regardless of whether
the source file contained CRLFs or LF and whether it's executed on
Windows or Unix.

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