That's very odd. I've been using Perl on Windows, and ^Z has never interrupted reading, even without binmode.

Without binmode, the following outputs 10 ("foo\n\cZ\nbar\n"), and 13 with ("foo\r\n\cZ\r\nbar\r\n"). 

#binmode(DATA);
local $/;
$x = <DATA>;
print(length($x), "\n");  # 10, 13 with binmode

__DATA__
foo
<Character 1A here>
bar

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I use ActivePerl. How did you build your Perl? If binmode doesn't solve your problem, you have a broken perl. I'd be interested in seeing the output of perl -V. (That's an uppercase "V".)

In reply to Re: Perl stops reading __DATA__ when meeting SUB character on Windows by ikegami
in thread Perl stops reading __DATA__ when meeting SUB character on Windows by yfnecz

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