Re: Tie::File problem (or is it just me?)

From: Graeme St. Clair (Graeme.St.Clair_at_hds.com)
Date: 03/08/05

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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:43:40 -0800

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    From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Hendrik Maryns
    Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 5:58 PM
    To: beginners@perl.org
    Subject: [Released] [Contains offensive content] Re: Tie::File problem (or
    is it just me?)

    John W. Krahn schreef:
    > Hendrik Maryns wrote:
    >
    >> Kevin Horton schreef:
    >>
    >>>
    >>> What kind of line endings does the file have? If I recall
    >>> correctly, I ran into a problem where perl did not recognize
    >>> classical Macintosh line endings as ending a line. It thought the
    >>> whole file was one line, until I converted the line endings to Unix
    format.
    >>
    >>
    >> That must be the problem! I work on WinXP (for the moment). The
    >> file is generated by ChatZilla, the IRC chat program part of the
    >> Mozilla suite. I don't know what kind of line endings it uses, how
    >> can I see this?
    >
    >
    > According to RFC 1459:
    >
    > IRC messages are always lines of characters terminated with a CR-LF
    > (Carriage Return - Line Feed) pair, and these messages shall not
    > exceed 512 characters in length, counting all characters including
    > the trailing CR-LF. Thus, there are 510 characters maximum allowed
    > for the command and its parameters. There is no provision for
    > continuation message lines. See section 7 for more details about
    > current implementations.
    >
    >
    > However when you save that data to a file the line endings are
    > determined by the application that saves that data and to some extent
    > by the operating system.

    I do understand, but is there a trick in Windows to get to see which chars
    are used as newline chars in a particular file, i.e. to show ASCII chars?

    Thanks for your help on splice and -i, I understand now!

    H.

    ########

    The only one I know comes with that fine editor TextPad, which you can
    download for trial for free from www.textpad.com, or even pay for, I think
    maybe about 30 USD.

    Use Ctrl O, then under File Format in the new window, choose "Binary", and
    "Open" and inspect to your heart's content!

    HTH, rgds, GStC.

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