in reply to Control M's with File::Copy

They are caused by Windows returns opened on a Unix system. For example after tranfering with FTP and using binary instaed of ascii mode.
You can remove them later on by using s/\r//g

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Re: Re: Control M's with File::Copy
by nimdokk (Vicar) on Jul 21, 2003 at 17:28 UTC
    I've also seen them generated on a Unix system by certain programs. Another way to remove them would be using s/\015//g.

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