Re^3: Trouble with newlines

The line endings are extremely annoying if one is on a dual boot box (Win/*nix) and trys to tweak CGI supposed to run on Apache/*nix as well as on IIS/Win.

Whenever one writes textmode *\n* to a file on booted Win and later boots the other OS reading the same file on *nix it ends up to be \r\n.
Extremely annoying imho. Sometimes one forgets about it and then wonders why things don't work as expected .

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Re^4: Trouble with newlines by naikonta (Curate) on May 12, 2007 at 16:56 UTC
Well, you're not alone :-). Here, comments from inside Lincoln Stein's CGI. `# Define the CRLF sequence. I can't use a simple "\r\n" because the m +eaning # of "\n" is different on different OS's (sometimes it generates CRLF, + sometimes LF # and sometimes CR). The most popular VMS web server # doesn't accept CRLF -- instead it wants a LR. EBCDIC machines don't # use ASCII, so \015\012 means something different. I find this all # really annoying.` [download] Open source softwares? Share and enjoy. Make profit from them if you can. Yet, share and enjoy!	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^4: Trouble with newlines
by naikonta (Curate) on May 12, 2007 at 16:56 UTC

Lincoln Stein

CGI

# Define the CRLF sequence.  I can't use a simple "\r\n" because the m
+eaning
# of "\n" is different on different OS's (sometimes it generates CRLF,
+ sometimes LF
# and sometimes CR).  The most popular VMS web server
# doesn't accept CRLF -- instead it wants a LR.  EBCDIC machines don't
# use ASCII, so \015\012 means something different.  I find this all
# really annoying.
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Open source softwares? Share and enjoy. Make profit from them if you can. Yet, share and enjoy!

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