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in thread odd behavior with DATA section

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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Re^5: odd behavior with DATA section
by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 23, 2005 at 05:13 UTC

    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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      I've only ran it with a newline. You seem to be missing my point:

      A trailing new line on the "last" line will NOT NECESSARILY generate a last empty line

      It depends on your OS and/or version of Perl.

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