in reply to Embedded POD

I've seen this on a couple of occasions: is the file in DOS format? When you pull it up in VIM does the information line say dos?

This causes the POD utilities no end of grief, but the perl interpreter has no problems with it whatsoever.

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(tye)Re: Embedded POD
by tye (Sage) on Jan 11, 2001 at 20:04 UTC

    Unless the POD utilities are using binmode, how would they even know about the \r's when used under a Microsoft operating system?

            - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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Re: Re: Embedded POD
by BoredByPolitics (Scribe) on Jan 12, 2001 at 06:40 UTC

    Thanks for the suggestion clintp - I discovered that was indeed the case when I compared the original file against a cut and paste created version with hexdump.

    I guess it got encoded wrongly when I emailed it as an attachment from home to work... you live and learn eh :-)

    Pete

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