To help you on this it would be useful if you did something like 
 (my $hex_user=$user)=~s/(.)/sprintf("%02x",ord($1))/egs;
  print "User: '$user' = '$hex_user'\n";

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For both $user and $password. Then we could see what is up properly. Im guessing however that is due to $/ being different from what TELNET thinks is a newline. Its quite possible that your OS thinks $/ is "\x0A" and Telnet thinks that \n is "\x0D\x0A" and since chomp only removes $/ from the end of a line it doesnt get the "\x0D". If this is so then 
$user=~s/\x0D\x0A$//;

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Probably would be the solution.

UPDATE: Oops, didnt notice that you were on Win32. In this case I suspect its a similar problem, but with different values, ie not "\x0D\x0A". Show use the hex output of what you've got for the user value eh..

HTH

--- demerphq
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In reply to Re: Extra Character from telnet by demerphq
in thread Extra Character from telnet by AcidHawk

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