Tony Cook

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• Posted Perl 5.18: getline and $/ = \N to Tony Cook

  Perl 5.18 will ship with a change in behaviour when using getline() (aka the <$handle> operator) on handles marked as returning Unicode where $/ is a reference to an integer.

• Commented on Perl I/O on scalars for 5.18
  This is intended to be part of 5.18 (and I've updated the title). See https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=109828 for the discussion....
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• Posted Perl I/O on scalars for 5.18 to Tony Cook

  From perl 5.17.9, the following:

  my $scalar;
  ...
  open my $fh, "<", \$scalar or die;
  

  will fail unless $scalar contains only code points 0xFF or lower - ie. they can be represented as bytes.

  Perl's I/O …

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• hashbangperl commented on A perl devops mailing list

  Yeay - I can't believe I didn't look before asking the lazyweb :) Handy - subscribed

• hashbangperl commented on A perl devops mailing list

  Somebody beat me to it a while ago - go team lazyweb :)