in reply to Format Streaming Text file with CR/LF

If I understand correctly, you are trying to read in a file where the record (line) seperator is CRLF. So why don't you set the input record seperator to CRLF? 
# Any system
binmode $fh;
local $/ = "\x0D\x0A";
while (<$fh>) {
   chomp;
   ...
}

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Note that Perl on Windows system covertly converts CRLF to LF on input, so you don't have to do anything. 

# Windows only
while (<$fh>) {
   chomp;
   ...
}

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Re^2: Format Streaming Text file with CR/LF
by drodinthe559 (Monk) on Jul 22, 2008 at 19:13 UTC
    I'm trying to add the CR/LF in a line feed text file. The text file when I get it is on long line with no CR/LF in it.I want to create a new line at every 90th character.
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        That will only add CRLF when run on Windows, but that might be ok or even desired.
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      In that case, I pretty much answered this question yesterday.

      From a file handle: 

      binmode $fh_in;
binmode $fh_out;

local $/ = \90;
while (<$fh_in>) {
   print $fh_out "$_\x0D\x0A";
}

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      From a string: 

      binmode $fh_out;

while (length($str)) {
   my $rec = substr($str, 0, 90, '');
   print $fh_out "$rec\x0D\x0A";
}

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      If you want CRLF when run on Windows and LF when run on other OSes, get rid of the binmode and replace \x0D\x0A with \n.

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