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Re: [Omaha.pm] Reading a Unix vs a DOS text file

Mike Hostetler wrote:

So . . . it there a way I could get Perl to detect a file that uses CRLF as
it's line terminator?  That way, I could use binmode on that file, and use
ASCII on the rest.  Or does someone have a better suggestion?


binmode is for binary files.

CRLF (\r\n Windows) and LF (\n *nix) are for text files.
I think you are confusing those two issues. They are not related. When reading a file you could 

while (<IN>) {
  s/[\r\n]+$//;
to remove those characters regardless of which format any given file was written in. 

Does that help?   :)

j