Re^3: missing character when reading input file

Still not a lot of info to do | go on, but let me suggest you have "invisible" characters lurking in your input:

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -le
"my $seq = qq{what is wrong with this\x0dline};
 print $seq;
 dd $seq;
"
line is wrong with this
"what is wrong with this\rline"
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Some kind of data dump (Data::Dumper, Data::Dump) might be informative. (Data::Dumper is core and so should already be installed.)

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Re^4: missing character when reading input file by Eily (Monsignor) on Sep 11, 2018 at 16:19 UTC
For this to work with Data::Dumper you need to set $Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1; Otherwise the \r isn't replaced by visible chars. `perl -MData::Dumper -E "print Dumper qq<a\rb>" b';R1 = 'a` [download] `perl -MData::Dumper -E "$Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1; print Dumper qq<a\rb +>" $VAR1 = "a\rb";` [download] One of the main reasons to prefer Data::Dump over Data::Dumper for debugging :) 80 chars really sounds like a display limit though, rather than an invisible char	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^4: missing character when reading input file
by Eily (Monsignor) on Sep 11, 2018 at 16:19 UTC

For this to work with Data::Dumper you need to set $Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1; Otherwise the \r isn't replaced by visible chars.

perl -MData::Dumper -E "print Dumper qq<a\rb>"
b';R1 = 'a
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perl -MData::Dumper -E "$Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1; print Dumper qq<a\rb
+>"
$VAR1 = "a\rb";
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Data::Dump

Data::Dumper

80 chars really sounds like a display limit though, rather than an invisible char

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