Re: Re: Re: DOS directory naming in PERL?

(grin). Sorry, I'm so used to writing Unix code that reads and writes to DOS-style files that I automatically did it.

So you are saying that the Dos/Win32 version of PERL correct interprets \n as the CR/LF combo? Interesting.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: DOS directory naming in PERL? by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Jan 19, 2001 at 23:28 UTC
See perldoc perlop, and look for "Quote and Quote-like Operators". `\n` is "virtual" with respects to Perl in that does not map to a single ASCII byte irrespective of OS. It assumes the OS's representation of a "newline". Under Unix, this is equivalent to `\cJ`. Under DOS/Windows, it's `\cM\cJ`. Likewise, I think `\r` behaves differently under MacOS as well, for the same reasons.	[reply] [d/l] [select]