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Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 02:27:42 -0600
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From: Dmitry Epstein <mitia AT northwestern DOT edu>
Subject: Perl and linebreaks
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Searching the archives I gathered that a few people already experienced 
problems similar to mine, but I couldn't find a definitive answer/solution 
to the problem.  If this has already been answered, kindly refer me to the 
appropriate thread.

I installed the latest version of Cygwin in "DOS mode" (so \n = 
CR/LF).  The distribution includes Perl v. 5.6.1.  The problem is that Perl 
gets really confused when dealing with text with CR/LF linebreaks.  The 
only thing that it does right is print \n as CR\LF, but just about 
everything else it does wrong.  For instance, if I read a text file, then 
print it *unchanged*, I find an extra CR character inserted at each 
linebreak.  Pattern matching is all messed up as well.  I am not sure if 
this is a problem with Perl or with bash or something else.  Any ideas?

Dmitry Epstein
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.  USA
mitia AT northwestern DOT edu


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