Re: Reading in a file not recognizing lines

in reply to Reading in a file not recognizing lines

Mac OS (well, at least older Mac OS) use(s|d) \x0d to represent end of line, so your file probably came from there or hopped through there without proper translation. You could:

re-fetch the file, this time telling whatever mechanism you're using to treat it as a text file (e.g. FTP in ASCII mode)
set $/ to \x0D
use split as you've done
use the *NIX tr utility to translate the line endings
use the perl -i -pe equivalent of the above to do the same

Also: see perlport for the section on "Newlines".

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Re^2: Reading in a file not recognizing lines by bradcathey (Prior) on May 22, 2006 at 11:24 UTC
Fetch, thanks. Great insight: was using an old OS9 program to generate tab-delimited conversion for transport to web. Embarrassingly, I've never worked with `$/`. Thanks for the nudge. —Brad "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot	[reply] [d/l]

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