Ah - sorry, it is maybe a bug in Komodo, where the filename is truncated - if I run the script command line, no problem, thanks anyway - >>ignore the following..... I have a file processing program, that prompts the user to in put a file name then does some data cleaning etc. The problem is, for certain files I have to rename the file first, as it seems that the existing file name breaks the script - So I have pasted below a small input script, that accepts the input and then just does a print - and even that exhibits the problem. Tried to find a possible explanation on the net, but so far no good - Please help ! 
# This is an example of the filenames >
# 518C7174-E4E9-4846-805D-2A16DF15D73A.distr

my $cleanme;

## Initialize filename variable
print("Enter filename: ");
chomp($cleanMe =<STDIN>);
print "*$cleanMe";

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