I am writing a script to convert PMMail2000 .msg files into one .mbx file. I am fairly new to perl, but I've managed to mostly get something that comes close to working, but I do not understand why in the following snippet of code 
for ($j=2; $j<=$message_count+1;$j++){
                print "\>$unixfrom\n";
                print "$return_path[$j]\r";
        print "$received[$j]\r";
        print "$date[$j]\r";
        print "$from[$j]\r";
        print "$to[$j]\r";
        print "$subject[$j]\r";
        print "$message_id[$j]\r";
        print "$mimeversion[$j]\r";
        print "$content_type[$j]\r";
        print "$xstatus[$j]\r";
        print "$xkeywords[$j]\r";
        print "$xuid[$j]\r";        
        }

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print "\>$unixfrom\n"; works and prints what is expected, but print "\>$unixfrom\r"; does not work at all. All/most of the rest of the lines print correctly with \r as well.... Any ideas? Is \r the correct character to end a line with for an mbx file? Thanks!

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