Well, I found a way to remove the control characters after each line: 
perl -p -e "s/\r+//" file.txt > newfile.txt

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and I thought for sure, this would work, but I still can't get it to match :-(

I tried every regex possible, but no luck, here's how I'm calling it: 
while  (<FILE>){

  /ATDT\d+\s+BUSY/ ? print : print "Did not match '$_'\n";

  #print if /ATDT\d+\s+BUSY/;

  #print if /ATDT\d+.*BUSY/s; 

  #print;

}

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L~R,

It looks like they took down the download files for Perl Power Tools.

eXile,

I tried your code, but I'm getting 
The system cannot find the file specified.

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I don't see where I'm suppose to specify the input file?

Abigail,

Thanks for the suggestion, but as you can see above I tried it, still not working.

Roy,

Everything gets printed back, including the lines I'm trying to match on 
Did not match 'Output: Got ."ATDT1234567'
'
Did not match 'BUSY

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In reply to Re: Regex Help by Dru
in thread Regex Help by Dru

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