Thanks 4 responding. Yes, I notice I put that $subject on the wrong line - it isnt in my actual code, just a typo. As for having '@' chars in the input, I don't know. The input is actually POSTed from a web page. I have decoded it like so: 
# Get POSTED info and stick it in $post_info.
read (STDIN, $post_info, $ENV {'CONTENT_LENGTH'} );

# split off fields and put them in @InfoArray
@InfoArray = split(/&/, $post_info);

# Remove variable= part and translate data into real chars
for ($n = 0; @InfoArray[$n]; $n++)
    {
    chomp; # remove newline
    ($dummy, $temp) = split (/=/, @InfoArray[$n]);
    $temp =~ tr/+/ /;
    $temp =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
    @InfoArray [$n] = $temp;
    }

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Does anyone see something dodgy with that little lot? Also, yes, it may be a null character, but I have chomped and choped the last line of text, and even done a 'get rid of crap' command  $article =~ s/\ 0//g;, all to no avail. Sheesh, It's gonna take me a while to get used to PERL. It's very powerful and, if you know it, quick, but it's so untidy! Im a Java man you see...

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