[Pdx-pm] UNIX NL verses MS(DOS) CRLF

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:25:17AM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> I am processing files on a Windows system from a Linux system that has the
> share as a SMB mount.  I'm using Marc Overmeer's Mailbox collection to
> process spam folders (mailboxen) and any time the process (re)writes the
> file I end up with NLs instead of CRLFs.  

If I'm wrong, someone will step in and correct me.

The EOL for writing is controlled by the Output Record Seperator, AKA $\
this is different than the Input Record Sep. of $/.
  
you can explicitly set the beast and it can be different than $/.  
See `man perlvar` for more information.
  
This means you can have this code snip:
  
  
  $\ = "\r\n";
  
  open IFILE, "<$unixEOLfile";
  open OFILE, ">$dosEOLfile";
  
  while (<IFILE>) {
          chomp;
          print OFILE;
  }
  
  close IFILE;
  close OFILE;
  



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