Re^2: Filesize (-s) is consistenly reporting too small of size in Win32

With this test, both the OS and Perl agree that the file is 26755 bytes.

Writing "x\r\n" produces 107020 bytes, which the OS and Perl agree on.

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Re^3: Filesize (-s) is consistenly reporting too small of size in Win32
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 17, 2009 at 17:05 UTC

heh, You mean writing "x\r\r\n" (by printing "x\r\n"). 107020 / 26755 = 4.

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Re^4: Filesize (-s) is consistenly reporting too small of size in Win32

by wilsond (Scribe) on Jan 17, 2009 at 17:25 UTC

Hah, yeah... I tried just "\n" as well. In any case, I just wanted to make sure it wasn't a line-ending problem, which it didn't appear to be based on the tests.

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