Re: RFC 69 (v1) Standardize input record separator (for

[email protected] (Bart Lateur) Wed, 09 Aug 2000 17:23:47 +0200

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.io
Organization	MediaMind
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On 09 Aug 2000 10:34:27 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:

>Please explain in what way "\n" is not safe on all platforms?
>
>On all platforms, the actual line seperators are translated (except
>under binmode()) to "\n". 

Try processing a Mac file on Unix, or vice versa. You'll soon see why.

Your scheme only works with platform native files.

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	Bart.