I wrote this in WIN to read a multiline .txt file line by line

<code while((INFILE)) {print $_;} >

Which is straightforward and NOT in @List context!

In WIN it worked perfectly for years, when I copy&paste a word.doc or .docx text into a simple txt file to use as INFILE. But when I do the same in MAC, that is copying a word.docx text to paste in a simple txt file, the above code churns out a single line whatever the lenght of the original text! I added a linecount in both system: in WIN it counts the lines correctly wether in MAC the result is always 1 line only.

I would very much appreciate a solution to this problem, since I have hundreds of texts to churn with my routine that wraps HTML tag around each line.

In reply to Same code different result in WIN and MAC, help please by JHG

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