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I don't think that there is any variable or core module that you can query to get this information. You could check $^O (see perlvar) or Config to get the OS name and work it out from there. However, it might not be easy to produce a foolproof solution with this method.

As a workaround I'd suggest writing "\n" to a temp file, binmoding the file and reading back in the character(s) used as line endings.

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John.

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