Config::IniFiles Carriage Returns

benztronics has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all! I've been using Config::IniFiles for a scheduler (amongst other handy apps) very successfully over the past few months. I just moved it to a Windows Server 2008 box and it seems to be writing the config without carriage returns in windows. Opening in Vim, it's fine, but my users, unfortunately, want to use notepad. Vim shows that it's creating a UNIX file. After a little research, It looks like if it's created in windows, it should write the proper return. I checked the $^O variable and it shows MSWin32... so I'm not sure what I need to do. It has worked properly in all of the windows XP and server 2003 environments that I have used so far. Is there a way to forcefully set the filetype? I am using Strawberry perl with the the latest CPAN installation of Config::IniFiles. Any guidance would be very helpful, thanks!

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Re: Config::IniFiles Carriage Returns by moritz (Cardinal) on May 22, 2012 at 14:14 UTC
You can pass a filehandle to `Config::IniFiles->new`, and set `binmode $thatfh, ':crlf';`. See PerlIO for a description of IO layers. Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Config::IniFiles Carriage Returns by Neighbour (Friar) on May 22, 2012 at 13:44 UTC
Try setting `$\ = "\r\n";` ($OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR for those who `use english;`) before writing out the ini-files. Windows just loves its CRLFs :) I'm not sure if Config::IniFiles respects this variable, but it's worth an attempt.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Config::IniFiles Carriage Returns by Anonymous Monk on May 23, 2012 at 00:06 UTC
Are you sure? http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SHLOMIF/Config-IniFiles-2.73/t/25line-endings.t It appears Config::IniFiles doesn't change the nature of the newlines, so either instruct your users to use unix2dos on the config file, or unix2dos the file for your win32 users when you ship it	[reply]
Re: Config::IniFiles Carriage Returns by benztronics (Initiate) on May 25, 2012 at 13:20 UTC
I ended up contacting the owner... a very nice guy named Shlomi who worked with me and it turned out to be a bug. he put the corrected version (2.75) on CPAN and all is well. Thanks!	[reply]