The problem is that Perl, of course, has its own setting for \n that need not be the same. Indeed, Perl's \n and the database's \n are different "\n"s. So what I need to do is to replace either 0D or 0D0A with \n.

You seem to think that Perl's "\n" can sometimes be "\x0d\x0a". That is not the case. Perl's "\n" is always "\x0a" except for non-ASCII systems (and the one case of the "near ASCII" old Macs). In particular, there is no Perl where 2==length("\n"). Though, if you have read perlport, you can be forgiven for not being the first person to be hopelessly confused by the horrid wording there that is almost correct but also terribly misleading (and also doesn't recognize old Macs as a one-off case of brokenness while also ignoring the possibility of non-ASCII Perl).

- tye        

In reply to Re: Line separators when passing multi-line fields to a database ("\n") by tye
in thread Line separators when passing multi-line fields to a database by davies

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