The module seems to be in quite an early stage of life; quoting the BUGS section of the manpage:
This Perl interface was mostly built automatically (using SWIG). Little to no attention was given to testing. In future relases of this Perl Module (along with its underlying ANSI-C implementation) we hope to fix all problems that might currenly interfere with successful usage of this module. Please send bug reports to the author(s) of this module.
(Bold is mine) Given this and the output problems you're encountering, are you sure you really want to use it?

Flavio (perl -e "print(scalar(reverse('ti.xittelop@oivalf')))")

Don't fool yourself.

In reply to Re: Printing out to a .txt file. by polettix
in thread Printing out to a .txt file. by fdillon

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