in reply to how to escape eof - chr(26)?

$ perl -wle 'open (F, ">test"); print F chr(26) . "Wont get in"; close
+(F);'; cat test
Wont get in

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is what I get. perl v5.6.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu. What do you mean by "escape the eof" and "get it right"? -- what is the question exactly?

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