Thank you for making my point. If you click on your own link, you will see the below.

And incredibly, in the line right after the one you quoted it says

    print SOCKET "Hi there, client!\r\n";      # WRONG
    print SOCKET "Hi there, client!\015\012";  # RIGHT
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Keep reading smartalec

Before this escalates, please step back, make your point with code and data, and don't resort to names. They do nothing to prove your point.

--MidLifeXis

Before this escalates, please step back, make your point with code and data, and don't resort to names. They do nothing to prove your point. --MidLifeXis

This is already over :) Pay close attention to the timestamps

The documentation made my point, but no, wasn't enough for Marshall, esp coming from Anonymous Monk

Marshall event went so far as to update his post without notice trying to justify his dismissive response and failing badly

He couldn't admit being wrong, didn't like being corrected, esp by Anonymous Monk

Smartalec was generous but appropriate and civil

There isn't enough time in the day to check every post to make sure someone isn't wrong on the internet, so I should have used harsher language

Your post is worse than his, you're just fanning the flames because you're just prejudiced against me

You're wrong, so here is some harsher language for you :P

You're worse than a can't-admit-when-he-is-wrong-dont-like-to-be-corrected-by-documentation-smartalec

You're a calm-down-everybody-in-an-empty-room-chicken-little-flame-fanner

So anonymous smartalec, post some code that proves your point.

I think that it is beyond discussion that Perl prints LF for \n on a Unix system and Perl prints CRLF for \n on a Windows system. I further claim that Perl will print CRLF for \n on a Network socket.

So anonymous smartalec, post some code that proves your point.

The documentation proves my point. You want to refute the documentation, you post the code.

Here it is, adopted from perlipc, which has small typo ( die ... unless if... )

The server

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use strict;
BEGIN { $ENV{PATH} = "/usr/bin:/bin" }
use Socket;
use Carp;
my $EOL = "\015\012";

sub logmsg { print "$0 $$: @_ at ", scalar localtime(), "\n" }

my $port  = shift || 2345;
die "invalid port" unless $port =~ /^ \d+ $/x;

my $proto = getprotobyname("tcp");

socket(Server, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto)    || die "socket: $!";
setsockopt(Server, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, pack("l", 1))    
                                                || die "setsockopt: $!
+";
bind(Server, sockaddr_in($port, INADDR_ANY))    || die "bind: $!";
listen(Server, SOMAXCONN)                       || die "listen: $!";

logmsg "server started on port $port";

my $paddr;

$SIG{CHLD} = \&REAPER;

for ( ; $paddr = accept(Client, Server); close Client) {
    my($port, $iaddr) = sockaddr_in($paddr);
    my $name = gethostbyaddr($iaddr, AF_INET);

    logmsg "connection from $name [",
            inet_ntoa($iaddr), "]
            at port $port";
            
    print Client prelen( "Hello there, $name, it's now ", scalar local
+time(), $EOL );
    print Client prelen( 'backslash \n__'."\n" );
    print Client prelen( 'backslash \r\n'."\r\n" );
    print Client prelen( 'backslash EOL_'.$EOL );
}
sub prelen {
    my $str = join '',@_;
    my $len = length $str;
    return "($len+6)$str";
}
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And the client

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Socket;
my ($remote, $port, $iaddr, $paddr, $proto, $line);

$remote  = shift || "localhost";
$port    = shift || 2345;  # random port
if ($port =~ /\D/) { $port = getservbyname($port, "tcp") }
die "No port" unless $port;
$iaddr   = inet_aton($remote)       || die "no host: $remote";
$paddr   = sockaddr_in($port, $iaddr);

$proto   = getprotobyname("tcp");
socket(SOCK, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto)  || die "socket: $!";
connect(SOCK, $paddr)               || die "connect: $!";
binmode SOCK or die "binmode $!"; ## no effect on client side
while ($line = <SOCK>) {
    my $length = length $line;
    print "($length)$line";
}
close (SOCK)                        || die "close: $!";
exit(0);

__END__
$ perl client.pl
(65)(59+6)Hello there, localhost, it's now Wed Sep 14 03:53:10 2011
(21)(15+6)backslash \n__
(22)(16+6)backslash \r\n
(22)(16+6)backslash EOL_
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The output from client

(65)(59+6)Hello there, localhost, it's now Wed Sep 14 03:53:10 2011
(21)(15+6)backslash \n__
(22)(16+6)backslash \r\n
(22)(16+6)backslash EOL_

The odd man out is the lone \n, it doesn't become \r\n

The strings are all the same size except for the line endings, with \n remaining \012 and \r remaining \015

So the documentation is correct

I think that it is beyond discussion that Perl prints LF for \n on a Unix system and Perl prints CRLF for \n on a Windows system.

No. That depends entirely upon layers/discipline and not on platforms.

Yes, some platforms have defaults, but they're not absolute.