Re: perl reading ^M on text mounts

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna at efn dot org>]

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 12:28:52PM +0000, Michael Lemke wrote:
> Dave <kilroyd <at> googlemail.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Have you tried setting the environment variable PERLIO? I'm not a heavy 
> > PERL user, but I tend to have
> > 
> > PERLIO=crlf
> > 
> > if I'm likely to see CRLFs.
> 
> Thanks, I tried that.  It indeed seems to remove the \r but independent of the 
> mount mode of the disk.  I googled a bit and found an old thread about this 
> where Max Bowsher sums it up in http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/
> msg22668.html  What a mess.  And no solution it seems.  The perl docs say a 
> simple open X, file; opens the file in text mode.  So I expect the subsequent 
> read (and chomp) to treat a \r according to mount mode of the file system.  
> PERLIO=crlf changes it for all files.  Is it just me or do other people also 
> feel this is broken?

Yes, it's broken, but with no good solution that I know of.

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