Mangled patch, needed hand-tweaks, along with binmode for rs.t:

	Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980605110840.009e12b0@ous.edu>
	Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.004_66]Add record read capability to <>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1099

1 files changed, 122 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/base/rs.t b/t/base/rs.t
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+#!./perl
+# Test $!
+
+print "1..14\n";
+
+$teststring = "1\n12\n123\n1234\n1234\n12345\n\n123456\n1234567\n";
+
+# Create our test datafile
+open TESTFILE, ">./foo" or die "error $! $^E opening";
+binmode TESTFILE;
+print TESTFILE $teststring;
+close TESTFILE;
+
+open TESTFILE, "<./foo";
+binmode TESTFILE;
+
+# Check the default $/
+$bar = <TESTFILE>;
+if ($bar eq "1\n") {print "ok 1\n";} else {print "not ok 1\n";}
+
+# explicitly set to \n
+$/ = "\n";
+$bar = <TESTFILE>;
+if ($bar eq "12\n") {print "ok 2\n";} else {print "not ok 2\n";}
+
+# Try a non line terminator
+$/ = "3";
+$bar = <TESTFILE>;
+if ($bar eq "123") {print "ok 3\n";} else {print "not ok 3\n";}
+
+# Eat the line terminator
+$/ = "\n";
+$bar = <TESTFILE>;
+
+# How about a larger terminator
+$/ = "34";
+$bar = <TESTFILE>;
+if ($bar eq "1234") {print "ok 4\n";} else {print "not ok 4\n";}
+
+# Eat the line terminator
+$/ = "\n";
+$bar = <TESTFILE>;
+
+# Does paragraph mode work?
+$/ = '';
+$bar = <TESTFILE>;
+if ($bar eq "1234\n12345\n\n") {print "ok 5\n";} else {print "not ok 5\n";}
+
+# Try slurping the rest of the file
+$/ = undef;
+$bar = <TESTFILE>;
+if ($bar eq "123456\n1234567\n") {print "ok 6\n";} else {print "not ok 6\n";}
+
+# try the record reading tests. New file so we don't have to worry about
+# the size of \n.
+close TESTFILE;
+unlink "./foo";
+open TESTFILE, ">./foo";
+print TESTFILE "1234567890123456789012345678901234567890";
+binmode TESTFILE;
+close TESTFILE;
+open TESTFILE, "<./foo";
+binmode TESTFILE;
+
+# Test straight number
+$/ = \2;
+$bar = <TESTFILE>;
+if ($bar eq "12") {print "ok 7\n";} else {print "not ok 7\n";}
+
+# Test stringified number
+$/ = \"2";
+$bar = <TESTFILE>;
+if ($bar eq "34") {print "ok 8\n";} else {print "not ok 8\n";}
+
+# Integer variable
+$foo = 2;
+$/ = \$foo;
+$bar = <TESTFILE>;
+if ($bar eq "56") {print "ok 9\n";} else {print "not ok 9\n";}
+
+# String variable
+$foo = "2";
+$/ = \$foo;
+$bar = <TESTFILE>;
+if ($bar eq "78") {print "ok 10\n";} else {print "not ok 10\n";}
+
+# Get rid of the temp file
+unlink "./foo";
+
+# Now for the tricky bit--full record reading
+if ($^O eq 'VMS') {
+  # Create a temp file. We jump through these hoops 'cause CREATE really
+  # doesn't like our methods for some reason.
+  open TEMPFILE, ">./foo";
+  print TEMPFILE "foo\nfoobar\nbaz\n";
+  close TEMPFILE;
+  open CREATEPIPE, "|\@sys\$input";
+  print CREATEPIPE "DEFINE SYS\$INPUT FOO./user\n";
+  print CREATEPIPE "CREATE []FOO.BAR\n";
+  close CREATEPIPE;
+  unlink "./foo";
+
+  open TESTFILE, "<./foo.bar";
+  $/ = \10;
+  $bar = <TESTFILE>;
+  if ($bar eq "foo\n") {print "ok 11\n";} else {print "not ok 11\n";}
+  $bar = <TESTFILE>;
+  if ($bar eq "foobar\n") {print "ok 12\n";} else {print "not ok 12\n";}
+  # can we do a short read?
+  $/ = \2;
+  $bar = <TESTFILE>;
+  if ($bar eq "ba") {print "ok 13\n";} else {print "not ok 13\n";}
+  # do we get the rest of the record?
+  $bar = <TESTFILE>;
+  if ($bar eq "z\n") {print "ok 14\n";} else {print "not ok 14\n";}
+
+  unlink "./foo.bar";
+} else {
+  # Nobody else does this at the moment (well, maybe OS/390, but they can
+  # put their own tests in) so we just punt
+  foreach $test (11..14) {print "ok $test # skipped on non-VMS system\n"};
+}