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From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Question about Perl on DOS and EOF problem.
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.163306.17399@holos0.uucp>
Date: 2 Mar 91 16:33:06 GMT
References: <11006@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Organization: Holos Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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In article <11006@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> kevin@jarthur.claremont.edu (Kevin Fink) writes:
>I am using Perl to convert some files from one format to another. The files
>contain hex 1A codes (EOF markers)....
>How do I get around this? The code looks something like:
>
>open(IN,"DATAFILE");

At this point say
binmode(IN);

which will put the stream into binary mode.  The default is text mode,
which translates CR/LF to LF and stops at the stupid-descended-from-the-
days-of-CPM-for-God's-sake end of file character.
-- 
Len Reed
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