Re: Is there a variable in which Perl stores the native file delimiter for the platform on which your script is running?

perldoc perlvar tells us that $/ contains whatever is used to mark the end of line. And chomp removes it from the end of a string.

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Re^2: Is there a variable in which Perl stores the native file delimiter for the platform on which your script is running? ($/) by tye (Sage) on Dec 23, 2005 at 01:14 UTC
And $/ is (defaults to) "\n" on every platform. And "\n" is "\cJ" aka "\x0a" on every ASCII platform (it is "\cM"/"\x0d" on the near-ASCII platform of old Macs). So $/ doesn't have much to do with the original question. - tye	[reply]