Besides using a table to infer it from $^O, is there any other way to detect it?

It's not neat, but you can actually write a newline to a file and then read it in binmode: 

use warnings;
use strict;
open FH, '>', 'out.txt' or die $!;
print FH "\n";
close FH;
open FH, '<', 'out.txt' or die $!;
binmode(FH);
my $stuff = do { local $/; <FH> };
print unpack('H*', $stuff), "\n";

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Tested on Windows, where it prints 0d0a and on Linux where it prints 0a.

You could clean it up, use File::Temp... whatever. But, unfortunately, you can't get by with an in memory file or IO::Scalar.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

In reply to Re: Native newline encoding by sauoq
in thread Native newline encoding by salva

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