note davido <blockquote><em><p>The correct question should better have been: "How can i get the line seperator from a file...?"</p></em></blockquote> <p>I think a better question would have been, "How can I use Tie::File with text files from diverse platforms?"</p> <p>But we eventually got the point, and I'm glad you got it worked out (<c>:crlf layer</c>).</p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-281137"> <br /><p>Dave</p> </div></div> 1003686 1003796