Perl/Tk and dos files

[Boy Mozart]

On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 llornkcor at llornkcor.com wrote:

> Hello-
>   I am having a little trouble. I am writting a Perl/Tk gui to load a 
> text file, downloaded from the net, into a TextUndo widget.
> The problem is that it shows the DOS line endings when used on
> linux. I can remove them from the file, using a script such as 
> 
> while (<>) {
> $_ =~s/\r\n/\n/g;
>    print $_;
> }
> as a seperate program.
> How can I go about doing this when it is loading into the widget?

Can you download the file first, run each line through the regex, print
the result to a new file, and send _that_ file into the widget?


-BM.