Re^4: Detect line endings with CGI.pm upload

So, how do you know what key1 is a representation for. 
To put it another way... How do you know what column value key1 is a u
+nique value in? Or am I missing something obvious?

I'm trying to get a picture of this dataset built off of a database. D
+o you have a simple snapshot of the datasets you might be receiving?
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Re^5: Detect line endings with CGI.pm upload by apu (Sexton) on Dec 27, 2008 at 08:39 UTC
Not the real data but think of it as apple red orange orange grape green apple green Neither the keys nor values must be unique; the script will take care of merging the multiple values for a single key, if needed. The source database thinks it is outputting `key{tab}value{newline}` but, because of the different line-endings, I get `key{tab}value{\cM}` instead. At least, I do when the end-user creates the file on a Mac. But, other end users can create this source file on a Windows system where I get different line endings so I need to accommodate any line ending. This is also one of three source files which could all come from different sources before the end-user uploads them using this CGI script. I was hoping there was a Perl/CGI.pm equivalent of FTP's "ASCII" mode.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^5: Detect line endings with CGI.pm upload
by apu (Sexton) on Dec 27, 2008 at 08:39 UTC

Not the real data but think of it as

apple      red
orange     orange
grape      green
apple      green

Neither the keys nor values must be unique; the script will take care of merging the multiple values for a single key, if needed. The source database thinks it is outputting key{tab}value{newline} but, because of the different line-endings, I get key{tab}value{\cM} instead. At least, I do when the end-user creates the file on a Mac. But, other end users can create this source file on a Windows system where I get different line endings so I need to accommodate any line ending. This is also one of three source files which could all come from different sources before the end-user uploads them using this CGI script.

I was hoping there was a Perl/CGI.pm equivalent of FTP's "ASCII" mode.

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