thx for all your time

your suggestions lead me the right way!

The Problem was that recently my Notepad++ crashed and the settngs for linefeed were resetted. The Input for my program is a plain textfield which consists of Steps which the program should do with stored paths to SQL statments. I work on a unix System and after the Crash of my Notepad++ the Default Settings were Windows lf so perl was confused and right so

thanks Christian