Hi Monks,
I'm working on linux and win32 machines. This routine parses mostly big LOG files, often from the *other* OS. The files contain ether \r\n or \n as EOL and may not be changed.
I have written a routine, which uses Tie::File in RO mode to get the lines. But this proggy dies if it ties an single-element-array which happens when getting newline text while running under win32.
Any suggestions?

# $/ = "\x0d\x0a"   # this is default (OS = Win32)
tie my @array, 'Tie::File', $file, mode => O_RDONLY, memory => 0 or di
+e $!;   # ReadOnly und *no MemBuffer* !!
# $_ =~ s/\r?\n/\n/g for (@array);  # doesn't work because $file will 
+be written
$n_recs = @array;  # how many records/lines are in the file?
unless ($n_recs > 1) {
   untie @array;
   local $/ = "\x0a";
   tie @array, 'Tie::File', $datei, mode => O_RDONLY, memory => 0 or d
+ie $!;
   $n_recs = @array;
   print join ("~LF~", @array);   # test to see...
   die "Sorry -- only one line!\n" unless $n_recs > 1;
}

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In reply to Problems with changing $/ and Tie::File in RO mode by Ooops

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