NAME¶
PerlIO::eol - PerlIO layer for normalizing line endings
VERSION¶
This document describes version 0.14 of PerlIO::eol, released December 18, 2006.
SYNOPSIS¶
binmode STDIN, ":raw:eol(LF)";
binmode STDOUT, ":raw:eol(CRLF)";
open FH, "+<:raw:eol(LF-Native)", "file";
binmode STDOUT, ":raw:eol(CRLF?)"; # warns on mixed newlines
binmode STDOUT, ":raw:eol(CRLF!)"; # dies on mixed newlines
use PerlIO::eol qw( eol_is_mixed );
my $pos = eol_is_mixed( "mixed\nstring\r" );
DESCRIPTION¶
This layer normalizes any of "CR", "LF", "CRLF"
and "Native" into the designated line ending. It works for both
input and output handles.
If you specify two different line endings joined by a "-", it will use
the first one for reading and the second one for writing. For example, the
"LF-CRLF" encoding means that all input should be normalized to
"LF", and all output should be normalized to "CRLF".
By default, data with mixed newlines are normalized silently. Append a
"!" to the line ending will raise a fatal exception when mixed
newlines are spotted. Append a "?" will raise a warning instead.
It is advised to pop any potential ":crlf" or encoding layers before
this layer; this is usually done using a ":raw" prefix.
This module also optionally exports a "eol_is_mixed" function; it
takes a string and returns the position of the first inconsistent line ending
found in that string, or 0 if the line endings are consistent.
The "CR", "LF", "CRLF" and "NATIVE"
constants are also exported at request.
AUTHORS¶
Audrey Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.
Janitorial help by Gaal Yahas <gaal@forum2.org>.
Inspired by PerlIO::nline by Ben Morrow, <PerlIO-eol@morrow.me.uk>.
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright 2004-2006 by Audrey Tang <audreyt@audreyt.org>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.
See <
http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>