Re: RFC 69 (v2) Standardize input record separator (for

[email protected] (Simply Hao) Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:03:52 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.io
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> But there is no way that I want under, any circumstance, _all_
> line endings active at the same time.

Why not?

Well, how about this proposal then?

DOS, Mac, Unix:

    use newlines "\015\012", "\012", "\015";

OS/390:

    use newlines "\r", "\025";

Weird OS:

    use newlines "\t";

Something like that?

Okay, maybe what I really want is $/ to be a regex.

-Hao