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

[Allen Day]

okay, how about this:

$tease->_readline(-strip=>0);

where the default value of -strip is 1, which causes \r\n to become \n.  

i've gone ahead and checked this in, let me know if there are objections.

-Allen


On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> Some regexs test explicitly for newline. I remember that DOS/Win 
> CRLF screwed up some code ... I don't know exactly which one though.
> 
> What about adding an optional parameter that if evaluates to true 
> prevents newline from being stripped? This would avoid another 
> method, fast, and be backward compatible.
> 
> 	-hilmar
> 
> On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 05:51 PM, Allen Day wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
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