Hi all, I have a script that slurps in some files, does stuff to them, and writes them out again using a standard slurping idiom (yes I know it is generally better to read in a line at a time, that is not the point of the post): 
sub EditFile{
  my $file = shift;
  open INFILE,$file;
  my $text = do{local $/;<INFILE>};
  close INFILE;
  # edit text
  open OUTFILE,">$file";
  print OUTFILE $text;
  close OUTFILE;  
}

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My problem is that some of these files have a "^Z" or "^A" character in the middle of them. When I slurp these files, the slurp stops at the "^Z" or the "^A", and I lose half the file. How do I get around this? Thanks!

In reply to File Slurping Problem in Win32 machine by fletcher_the_dog

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