Re: Perl ignores CarriageReturn during fileparsing. Why?

[Athanasius]

in reply to Perl ignores CarriageReturn during fileparsing. Why?

The input record separator is stored in the special Perl variable $/. It is newline (i.e., \n, not “carriage return”, which is \r) by default.

Have your “far away” changes altered the value of $/?

Hope that helps,

[hoppfrosch]

You are my god for today - Wrong value within $/ (INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR) was the culprit; resetting it to '\n' solves my problem.
I assumed there has to be a special variable for this - but couldn't find it ...
Any change I made must have altered the value of $/ - have to find out which.

[space_monk]

Normally the input record separator should only be changed in the scope for which you need to change it

# code "borrowed" from node 1952 :-)
{
  local $/ = undef;
  open FILE, "myfile" or die "Couldn't open file: $!";
  $string = <FILE>;
  close FILE;
}
# $/ reverts back to default here...

[hoppfrosch]

The change happened by accident and not intentional - until now I wasn't able to locate the change within my own code. Perhaps it happens somewhere in an external perl module ....