[Bioperl-l] Bio::Root::IO::_readline

Allen Day allenday@ucla.edu
Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:51:21 -0700 (PDT)


The functionality surprised me here:

$line =~ s/\r\n/\n/g if (defined $line);

Do we need to do this?  I have an application that needs to preserve CRLF 
as-is.  If this is necessary, I'd like to add another function that 
doesn't strip off line endings.  What should this function be called?

-Allen