Idiomatic portable way to strip line endings?

[Erik Max Francis]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

> Even if you get the file from an operating system that uses another
> line
> ending convention?

Then you should probably handle it on a case-by-case basis.  After all,
you might be getting an arbitrary binary file, or a "text" file that has
an end-of-line convention that you've never seen before.

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