in reply to die on carriage return

Most terminal drivers convert carriage return to a newline (on UNIX, see stty(1)), so test eq "\n". There should be no need for a regular expression.

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Re^2: die on carriage return
by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Dec 31, 2008 at 11:46 UTC
    Wouldn't that have a tendency to remove some of the platform agnosticism - assuming that's a design/implementation goal ... as it seems to be in most of the projects I've worked on ??

    A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))
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