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For future reference, that's only the case for Windows, or it's at least not true for unix.

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Re^3: odd behavior with DATA section
by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 23, 2005 at 00:24 UTC

    You mean the Unix file system strips trailing new lines from a file? Surely that would be a rather obnoxious thing for any file system to do?

    Perhaps I should make it clear that by new line I mean what ever line end indicating convention might be used by whatever OS you happen to be using (CR for MAC, LF for *nix, CRLF for DOS/Windows).

    Perl is Huffman encoded by design.
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      You mean the Unix file system strips trailing new lines from a file?

      No, we were talking about whether a blank line is returned at the end or not.

      $\ = "\n";
print length while <DATA>;
__DATA__
1
2
3

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      Windows prints 2, 2, 2, 0.
      FreeBSD prints 2, 2, 2.

      Update: I'm getting inconsistent results in Windows:
      Win2k, ActivePerl 5.6.0, (at work) I got 2,2,2,0.
      Win2k, ActivePerl 5.8.6, (at gf's) I get 2,2,2.

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        I get either behaviour depending on if I put a new line on the last line or not. I'm using 5.8.6

        Perl is Huffman encoded by design.
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