perl reading ^M on text mounts
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
sthoenna@efn.org
Tue May 23 07:12:00 GMT 2006
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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