There are conditions on my current macosx where an app will save a "plain text" version of a file using just CR for line termination, even though the OS is really a flavor of unix, and perl's default $/ on macosx is LF. (I can only wonder how much longer this CR silliness will go on.) I know that CRLF comes from a variety of web apps as well as from ms-win systems. Alas, $/ has to be a literal string -- you can't use a regex as the input record separator.

If you never encounter any really huge CR-format files, you might want something like this: 

while (<>) {
    my @lines;
    if ( /\n$/ ) {
        tr/\r\n//d;
        @lines = ( $_ );
    } else {
        @lines = split /\r/;
    }
    for my $line ( @lines ) {
        # do stuff with each line of text
    }
}

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Either that or else you just use slurp mode in all cases, and split into lines (using  /[\r\n]+/) if you really need to do that.

If you have to worry about getting really huge files in any of the three possible formats, you'll want to diagnose each file first -- at least, check the file size first, and if it's really big, read just enough (e.g. read FH, $_, 2048;), to figure out what the line termination is, set $/ accordingly, then rewind it (seek FH,0,0;) to read the whole thing as it was intended to be read.

In reply to Re: Process file regardless of the platform it was created on by graff
in thread Process file regardless of the platform it was created on by andreas1234567

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