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But even <br />
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print &quot;\x0A&quot;; <br />
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outputs a \x0D\x0A pair.<br />
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How can I output just the \x0A running on a DOS system?<br />
Maybe the print command is not the way to do it.<br />
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But even

print "\x0A";

outputs a \x0D\x0A pair.

How can I output just the \x0A running on a DOS system?
Maybe the print command is not the way to do it.



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Ultimately, I am trying to replace all the \r\n pairs in a file with just \n but I seem to be unable to write out just the \n character or even get the \n to be written in a search and replace (e.g. $string =~ s/\r\n/\n/g;), presumably because of the OS dependancy.<br />
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Ultimately, I am trying to replace all the \r\n pairs in a file with just \n but I seem to be unable to write out just the \n character or even get the \n to be written in a search and replace (e.g. $string =~ s/\r\n/\n/g;), presumably because of the OS dependancy.





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open OUT, &quot;&gt;test&quot;;<br />
binmode OUT;<br />
print OUT &quot;\x0A&quot;;
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open OUT, ">test";
binmode OUT;
print OUT "\x0A";

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Did the result get converted by other intermediary functions/browsers/objects<wbr />/functions<wbr />?<br />
<br />
Doing what holli suggest can identify this.<br />
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Did the result get converted by other intermediary functions/browsers/objects/functions?

Doing what holli suggest can identify this.



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All of these issues are covered in detail in the &quot;perlport&quot; manual page.
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All of these issues are covered in detail in the "perlport" manual page.

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I thought that \n represented just a line feed character.<br />
Why does the following program result in outputing a CR LF pair, rather than just the LF.<br />
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#!/usr/bin/perl<br />
print &quot;\n&quot;;<br />
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I'm using Active Perl on XP. &nbsp;I wondered if there was an environment variable I had to set to force Perl to treat \n as just a LF?<br />
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Thanks<br />
Gary
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I thought that \n represented just a line feed character.
Why does the following program result in outputing a CR LF pair, rather than just the LF.

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "\n";

I'm using Active Perl on XP.  I wondered if there was an environment variable I had to set to force Perl to treat \n as just a LF?

Thanks
Gary

Perl is writting \n as CRLF.  Why?

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