c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -e "use Data::Dump qw(dd); ;; $/ = qq{\n}; ;; my $input = qq{OVERWRITTEN=key\r\n}; ;; chomp $input; my ($value, $key) = split /=/, $input; dd $key; ;; my %hash = ($key, $value); print qq{The $key if not long enough is $hash{$key}}; " "key\r" if not long enough is OVERWRITTEN