Mark Benedetto King wrote:
>>My nice cross-platform perl script that used to do
>>
>> checkout("foo");
>> process("foo");
>>
>>becomes
>>
>> checkout("foo");
>> $foo_ending = get_line_ending_attribute("foo");
>> $platform_ending = get_platform_line_ending();
>> if ($foo_ending == CRLF && $platform_ending == LF) {
>> dos_to_unix("foo");
>> } else if ($foo_ending == LF && $platform_ending == CRLF) {
>> unix_to_dos("foo");
>> if ($foo_ending == CR && $platform_ending == LF) {
>> mac_to_unix("foo");
>> } else if ($foo_ending == LF && $platform_ending == CR) {
>> unix_to_mac("foo");
>> if ($foo_ending == CR && $platform_ending == CRLF) {
>> mac_to_dos("foo");
>> } else if ($foo_ending == CRLF && $platform_ending == CR) {
>> unix_to_mac("foo");
>> }
>> process("foo");
>>
>>No thanks.
>>
>>Peter.
>>
>>
>>
>
> consider:
>
> checkout("foo");
> $foo_ending = get_line_ending_attribute("foo");
> $platform_ending = get_platform_line_ending();
> fix_endings( "foo", $foo_ending, $platform_ending );
>
> --ben
Or:
checkout("foo");
Presumably checkout() can be written to fix the line endings when
necessary? Or certainly a method which can do both and be called once...
Not advocating this proposal particularly (in fact I want newline
conversion) but I don't think having to write a little conversion code
is the end of the world.
Julian
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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:53 2006