Re: Strange read file behaviour

I don't know what exactly is happening, so please can you explain?

Your file directories.txt was created on a Windows machine so it has <CR><LF> ("\r\n") line endings and chomp on Unix will only remove the <LF> and leave the <CR>.

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Re^2: Strange read file behaviour by almut (Canon) on Jun 28, 2010 at 12:20 UTC
and chomp on Unix will only remove the <LF> This is correct, but the "on Unix" kind of implies that this would be different on Windows — which it isn't. On Windows it also only removes a linefeed. But that's ok, as on Windows the `crlf` layer has already translated the `\r\n` to `\n` while reading in the line.	[reply] [d/l] [select]