in reply to weird perl verion and/or OS problem with newlines
How big are these attachments? It looks like you're putting the entire content of <STDIN> to $str, and this might be causing the seg faults. I think the following (untested) code does what the code does, without consuming too much memory. Comments welcome.
Update: fixed the bonehead error of using next inside the loops.while (<>) { my $val=''; if (/^\#:lav/) { $_.=<>; $val.="$_\n"; while (/^#:eof/m) { $val.="$_\n"; $_.=<>; } } print $val; }
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