I think there's a bug when the -F is last.

I've noticed this before when scripts that worked under linux broke under windows. The -F argument contained "\r" which broke the BEGIN block that the -F produces (toke.c:2457)

So don't put -F last.

echo "a:b" |perl "-lanF:\r" -e 'print $F[1]'
$ echo "hi=there" | perl '-lanF/=/);print("JAPH"' -e 'print @F'
JAPH
hithere

perl "-lanFi'~#" -e1
perl $'-lanFi\'~#\200' -e1
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