[Israel.pm] newline character as a portability issue

[Shlomo Yona]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Dovalle Yankelovich wrote:

> 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.

This probably isn't exactly accurate.
perldoc perlport also mentions \015 and \012...

So -- apparently, this is indeed something which requires
some general handling rather than simply betting on the
correct character...


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