Hi, I am not a Perl programmer but I have a Perl issue that needs to be resolved and will greatly appreciate your help.

Here’s the case:

perl -le 'print "Version $] : ", -T "spk_pre_180208_180715_180419_bpo1
+2_p.bsp" ? "text" : "not text"'

Linux:
Version 5.010001 : not text
Version 5.014002 : not text
Version 5.016003 : not text
Version 5.026001 : tex
[download]

Somewhere (between version 5.20.3 and 5.22.4) there is a Perl patch causing a change in -T's behavior. A file that was previously evaluated as Binary is now evaluated as text.

Any insight?

Thanks so much for your help!

2018-05-22 Athanasius added code and paragraph tags

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