It may help you to know that this doesn't work with previous versions of ActivePerl either. So I guess that you are mis-remembering the previous behaviour. ;-)

The problem is that there is no \r in the line that perl sees since it is stripped off by the Windows IO libraries. Therefore you can't remove it. And when the line is written back out the \n is replaced with \r\n (again by the IO libraries) so the \r is still in the output file.

You can convince yourself of this with the following one-liner which won't print out any of the lines in file. 

    perl -ne "print if /\r/" file.txt

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The following will work when directed to another file: 
    perl -pe "BEGIN{binmode *STDOUT}" file.txt > file2.txt

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This won't work with -i however, probably due to where the binmode occurs in relation to other internal actions on the input and back-up file.

--
John.

In reply to Re: Perl line endings: something broken in ActiveState Perl 5.8? by jmcnamara
in thread Perl line endings: something broken in ActiveState Perl 5.8? by rduke15

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