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Under Windoze 7: 

>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $fred;
 open O, '>', \$fred;;
 { local( $/, $\ ); print O \"\n\";; };;
 close O;;
 print unpack 'H*', $fred;;
"
0a

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I assume the result is the same on a *nix system. Anyone care to try the Mac?

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Re^3: Native newline encoding
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on May 23, 2012 at 01:12 UTC
    …result is the same on a *nix system…

    You mean like a Mac? :P

    perl -le 'open F,">",\$f; {local($/,$\); print F "\n"}; print unpack "
+H*", $f'
0a

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      I'm not at all familiar with the Mac, but I had always heard/understood that it used 0x0d as the underlying OS-mumble-nix file system newline delimiter. No? (But that is separate and apart from the code experiments that have been done in this thread, since I suspect the delimiter is always 0x0a for Perl internally.)

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        Mac has been a BSD / NeXTSTEP Unix variant called Darwin under the hood starting c 2000. I suspect some of its files/dev-UI may still use or default to legacy encoding schemes but so far I have been mercifully spared from needing to know.

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Re^3: Native newline encoding
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 23, 2012 at 04:40 UTC

    Sorry, I missed your reply due to all the noise created by my erstwhile friend.

    Under Windoze 7:

    My demo was also run under Windows (Vista), so no surprise there :)

    I assume the result is the same on a *nix system.

    Indeed. And that was exactly the point of the demonstration. salva's a *nix man and knows I'm a windows user; so the significance would not be lost on him.

    Anyone care to try the Mac?

    Since modern macs are essentially *nix, it'll be the same there also. You'd have to go back to MacOS to see a difference I think.

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