Re: Reading in a file not recognizing lines

[Fletch]

Mac OS (well, at least older Mac OS) use(s|d) \x0d to represent end of line, so your file probably came from there or hopped through there without proper translation. You could:

• re-fetch the file, this time telling whatever mechanism you're using to treat it as a text file (e.g. FTP in ASCII mode)
• set $/ to \x0D
• use split as you've done
• use the *NIX tr utility to translate the line endings
• use the perl -i -pe equivalent of the above to do the same

Also: see perlport for the section on "Newlines".

[bradcathey]

Fetch, thanks. Great insight: was using an old OS9 program to generate tab-delimited conversion for transport to web.

Embarrassingly, I've never worked with $/. Thanks for the nudge.