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What happens when the same program is put on a system where there are no '''\n''' indicators in the file, but the ''newline'' is instead, ''indicated'' by the end-of-record in the file structure. This would be the case of (generic) OS (MVS) or CMS (both IBM systems). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 16:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC) |
What happens when the same program is put on a system where there are no '''\n''' indicators in the file, but the ''newline'' is instead, ''indicated'' by the end-of-record in the file structure. This would be the case of (generic) OS (MVS) or CMS (both IBM systems). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 16:14, 22 December 2013 (UTC) |
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Probably the correct way to split would be split(&/), &/ being the input record separator global variable. I've never seen it used, except for golfing, but Ruby uses it with methods like gets and readline. |