Controlling EOL char(s) in text file 1

[dpestian]

Is there a way to override the EOL char(s) that Perl uses as I write out lines to a text file? I use:

print TempFH "units: in\n";

but when I look in the file it has both the carriage return and newline characters in the file. I am running from a command prompt in Win2k but wanted to know if I can overwrite the default EOL.

-TIA

 

[icrf]

I'm pretty sure a \n is always a newline, and what that is depends on your system. In windows, it just happens to be cr/lf (0x0D/0x0A).

Perl uses an input record separator (not sure of the terminologoy) that is stored in $/ This value is what it breaks on when you $line = <FILE> and the value it removes from the end when you chomp $line. You could just dump a hex value. Say you wanted the *nix newline, you could say

print TempFH "units: in\x0D";

Again, I'm pretty sure \n is system defined and the user cannot change that, but I've been wrong once or twice before in life. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...but I'm just a C man trying to see the light

 

[MikeLacey]

To change it you have to set two Perl variables, the Input Record Separator and the Output Record Separator.

$/ -- the IRS
$\ -- the ORS

dpestian, have a look in the perlvar documentation for the entry on &quot;The output record separator for the print operator&quot;. Mike

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