Re^3: Temporary text files with File::Temp

[ack]

jarich, you wrote:

"Alternately if there is a special layer I can pass to binmode itself to say "treat as text" so that Perl can do it's special text-file magic by translating \n to the appropriate thing; I'd love to hear about that."

I was recently investigating the use of the I/O layers and seem to recall that there may be a way to do what you asked about. But I'm by no means an expert on the topic so it isn't something I've got much experience with.

But wouldn't that constitute exactly what you said you didn't want...special processing for each environment? And wouldn't that defeat your goal of keeping it simple for your students?

[jarich]

It depends on what the special layer was. For example if I could write:

binmode($fh, ":text");

And have it do the right thing on all systems, it'd be an okay solution. Of course, the best place to fix this is still in File::Temp, because teaching the students that they'll need two commands isn't quite as cool as just giving them one.

I've looked at the File::Temp code, and it looks pretty easy to patch, so as soon as I have time and access to a Windows box, I'll be working on that. Probably mid-April.