Re^3: How can you sysread an entire file?

try this under windows and linux

use strict;
use warnings;

open(FILE, '>', 'foo.bar') or die "Daim!";
print FILE "\n";
close FILE;
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under windows, the file will have a size of two bytes (\r\n)- under linux just 1 (\n) comapre it to

use strict;
use warnings;

open(FILE, '>', 'foo.bar') or die "Daim!";
binmode FILE;
print FILE "\n";
close FILE;
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Re^4: How can you sysread an entire file? by NeilF (Sexton) on Jan 13, 2006 at 18:33 UTC
I'm aware of that... All my files on Windows & Unix follow that rule... What's the problem?	[reply]
Re^5: How can you sysread an entire file? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 13, 2006 at 22:10 UTC
I linked to a thread that discusses the bug in the two sentence paragraph in which I mentioned the bug. In some versions of Perl, `sysread` acts as if `binmode` is on, even when it's not. When `binmode` is on, "`\n`" is not the end of line marker, yet you're splitting on "`\n`". Ok, fine, you won't have a problem in Windows until it's time to `chomp`, when you'll find the "`\r`" is not being removed along with the "`\n`".	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: How can you sysread an entire file? by NeilF (Sexton) on Jan 13, 2006 at 23:11 UTC
I never do a chomp... Every record keeps its "\n" (at the end) and is written back out with it again. I don't plan on splitting the record (variable) while reading - unless there's a good reason. I'll read it all in, then split it on "\n" to put it into an array.	[reply]