Re: help slurping a file-- Solved -- Thanks for responses

> In Mac OS X the newline is \012 and that is what "\n" is eq to. I was
> told in MacPerl (for MacOS pre X) the underlying codes of \n and \r
> were switched (wrt to the rest of platforms), but still \n is the
> logical newline everywhere.

--The specs the file was created from:

Filemaker version 5.5, Mac OS 10.4

The newline character is in this case decimal 013 (oct \015).
I found this out by parsing each character out in java, and looking at the
byte code.
I thought the "\n" --dec 10, (oct \012) was standard too, but here is a case
where it is clearly isn't.
I think it might be a Mac issue, since as a test, my collaborator opened it
in "Text Wrangler" and saved it with Unix safe endings, with the same
results.
I'm not really a Mac person, so this threw me off a bit.

Renee


Quoting Xavier Noria <fxn@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Oct 28, 2005, at 15:09, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
>
> > On Oct 28, Renee Halbrook said:
> >
> >
> >> My perl interpreter display does not recognize "\r" for a newline
> >> character
> >> for standard out, so it simply printed the same line over on top
> >> of the
> >> previous line, making it look like it was only reading one line
> >> total.
> >> The slurping was working fine, but the display was not what I
> >> anticipating.
> >>
> >
> > That's not Perl's issue. That's your terminal's issue. And it's
> > not an "issue", because that's what \r is supposed to do. \r is a
> > carriage return, which only means the cursor is brought back to the
> > beginning of the line.
> >
> > (Except maybe on Macs, I don't know. That's weird. I don't use a
> > Mac, though, so I can't be sure.)
>
> In Mac OS X the newline is \012 and that is what "\n" is eq to. I was
> told in MacPerl (for MacOS pre X) the underlying codes of \n and \r
> were switched (wrt to the rest of platforms), but still \n is the
> logical newline everywhere.
>
> -- fxn
>



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Renee Halbrook
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The Carnegie Institution of Washington
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