in reply to simple file question, extra spaces, win32

I suspect the file has special characters that only MS software likes. Try something like this:

my $row = <$fh>;
local $, = ' ';
print map { ord $_ } split //, $row;

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Which should print out the base-10 value of each character in the row with spaces in between. Then check the ASCII value of each character. You should be able to find the problematic character in there.

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