"Excellent solution!"

Thankyou.

"But it still needs a tr/\r//d in there somewhere :)"

I'm not sure that it does. If the input file was created on an MSWin system and then subsequently processed on a *nix system, then some additional handling of line-endings may be appropriate.

The four instances of "s/[\r]//g" suggest multiple embedded carriage-returns; although, that might just be poorly coded. The single chomp doesn't add a lot of clarity either.

If the OP can show where carriage-returns are embedded, I can certainly add a transliteration like you suggest.