Also for your interest your assertion that $/ is CRLF on Win32 is wrong, nor does chomp remove the \r. As I understand it there is some internal magic the means that non binmode file read/writes get converted but you can see that $/ is "\n" - at least on my system. I have been bitten by \r not getting eaten by chomp on multiple occasions, usually related to Win32->*nix issues. 

C:\>type test.pl
printf "CR \\r \\%03o 0x%02x\n", ord("\r"), ord("\r");
printf "LF \\n \\%03o 0x%02x\n", ord("\n"), ord("\n");
print $^O, $/;
print "\$/ length ", length $/, " is ", (unpack "H*", $/), "\n\n";

my $str = "str\015\012";

for( 1..2 ) {
    print "string '$str'\n";
    print "length ", length $str, "\n";
    chomp $str;
    print "string '$str'\n";
    print "length ", length $str, "\n\n";
}

C:\>test.pl
CR \r \015 0x0d
LF \n \012 0x0a
MSWin32
$/ length 1 is 0a

string 'str
'
length 5
'tring 'str
length 4

'tring 'str
length 4
'tring 'str
length 4


C:\>

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cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re^4: Strange character beginning text files by tachyon
in thread Strange character beginning text files by Anonymous Monk

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