Format of options file

[RS]

On 05/03/2018 12:14, Colin Law wrote:

> 
> Yes, I agree.  For anyone who knows the code it should not be
> difficult to ignore CR characters after the text. I expect it is
> already ignoring white space after it.  Any patch takes time to work
> out and to test though.
> 
For history (I haven't yet found where it processes the options file) it 
uses chomp at line 3717 (v3.12) to strip off any unwanted characters. 
If I have understood this article correctly
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlport.html#Newlines
chomp should work portably with default settings.  I am not sure I have 
fully understood the article it links to about chomp VARIABLE,  but I 
can't see anywhere the variable is set.

Best wishes
Richard