So, your assumption is that he's not going to use the information; just discover it and then what?

No, I'm not making an assumption.

You were assuming he was going to use it to process line endings. I've already pointed out that the information could be used in other ways.

Hide information that is common knowledge

Are you being purposefully obtuse? This doesn't seem like the BrowserUk I know. The point was that you are succumbing to a certain detrimental philosophy: there are things you just don't need to know, don't worry about them, let other people the OS handle it for you.

The OP asked a straightforward question. I answered it. And your response is to say it shouldn't be answered.

I can't pretend to respect that way of thinking. Or avoidance thereof.

The point was that you are succumbing to a certain detrimental philosophy: there are things you just don't need to know, don't worry about them, let other people the OS handle it for you.

Quite the opposite.

I know salva's work; and can easily deduce from it, that his knowledge is more than sufficient to know what the on-disk line endings are on all the popular platforms.

Hence, I knew that he wasn't asking "What are the line endings"?

The question he asked was quite different to the one you continue to insist on answering.

Further, based on my awareness of salva's knowledge and skills; I recognised that his actual question could not really be answered correctly without understanding the purpose to which the information obtained was going to be put to.

Hence, I asked questions, rather than offering up functionally useless information.

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The start of some sanity?

The question he asked was quite different to the one you continue to insist on answering.

Oh. I see.

Please enlighten me.

What question did he ask when he wrote:

I am looking for a way to easyly detect the native newline encoding of the OS running my perl script. Besides using a table to infer it from $^O, is there any other way to detect it?

And what question did I answer?

This:

Hence, I knew that he wasn't asking "What are the line endings"?

by the way, is neither. That's just something that you apparently pulled out of thin air.

And, you know, I really am not even sure that you understand the code you provided was completely useless. At first I thought you made an honest mistake in a hasty answer... then I thought maybe you were giving a brain dead example to make a (not so good) point, and now I'm really not so sure again.

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