• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: Liam R E Quin <liam@w...>
• Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 08:49:31 +0000

> 
> Traditionally a bunch of Unix utilities went wrong if you did not have a newline (LF, \n) at the end of the file, so the "vi" editor took to warning people if they opened a file like this. The utilities are all (mostly?) fixed and have been for years, but the warning persists.
> 

This presumably explains the peculiar rules that regular expressions have for semi-ignoring a newline appearing as the last character in an input string.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

• References:
  • Achieving interoperability in a world where different OS'srepresent newline differently
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
  • Re: Achieving interoperability in a world where different OS's represent newline differently
    • From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>
  • Re: Achieving interoperability in a world where differentOS's represent newline differently
    • From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w...>