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

>>>>> "BL" == Bart Lateur <[email protected]> writes:

BL> On 09 Aug 2000 12:00:55 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>> There was no mention of cross-platform line-ending support.

>> I suggested a while ago on p5p an improved binmode(), that might do
>> such magic among other things.

BL> Then it should do the *inverse* thing that binmode() does. This magic
BL> should only apply to text files, for whatever platform they originate
BL> from. If a file is binmode'd, Perl should keep the data as is, no
BL> conversion (or even interpretation) of the input, whatsoever.

It doesn't have to be called binmode(). Let's call it readmode().

	readmode(FOO, "CRLF");
	readmode(FOO, "os:macintosh");
	readmode(FOO, "os:MVS encoding:ebcdiic");

Wait, this sounds like a job for input/output filters.

Forget I said anything.

<chaim>
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