Has any of the data you're transmitting been (possibly inadvertently) converted into UTF8? In this case, the length of the string does not match the number of bytes it contains, eg 
my $s = "ab";
$s .= "\x{100}";
open F, ">/tmp/x";
print F $s;
close F;
printf "length = %d, size = %d\n", length $s, -s '/tmp/x';

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gives 
Wide character in print at /tmp/p line 7.
length = 3, size = 4

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: $! and $@ peculiarities by dave_the_m
in thread $! and $@ peculiarities by linux454

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