Change recsep to \n

I hope this won't be necessary, because I don't know in advance which line ending style the file will have. There is, however, something I don't quite understand: As you correctly say, the documentation explains By default, the meaning is the same as for the <...> operator. But now look at the following program, which uses the angle operator insead of tie, to read the same file: 

use strict;
use warnings;

sub printfirst {
  my $f=shift;
  open(F,$f) or die "$!";
  my $firstline=<F>;
  print "$f: $firstline\n";
}
printfirst('ALSF.pm');

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In this case, $firstline correctly gets only the first line in the file, although the lines in the file are terminated by \n and we are running on Windows. Shouldn't then $firstline also contain the whole file in this case?

-- 
Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

In reply to Re^4: Can't get Tie::File working by rovf
in thread Can't get Tie::File working by rovf

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