[Israel.pm] newline character as a portability issue

[Dovalle Yankelovich]

I think the ASCII codes 13, 10 (carriage return and new line
respectively) should be 'cross platform', so instead using shorts (such
as '\n') add these 2 chars to your output.

Regards,
Dovalle


-----Original Message-----
From: Shlomo Yona [mailto:shlomo at cs.haifa.ac.il] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 18:27
To: perl at perl.org.il
Subject: [Israel.pm] newline character as a portability issue

Hello,

I have a script which does some manipulation to texts.
This script assumes that '\n' is the newline character.

I wonder how I can make the script more robust across
platforms, regarding newline characters.

I know that on unices that '\n' is the newline. I don't
really know if that is always the case, and I also don't
know what happens on other platforms.

What would be a good way to attack this issue?
Once I have a solution, what would be the way to write tests
(using Test::More) to ensure that during installation (say,
during 'make test')? I mean, how can I make a platform
dependent test for this issue?

Thanks.

-- 
Shlomo Yona
shlomo at cs.haifa.ac.il
http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shlomo/
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