I am trying to make a simple GUI in Perl/Tk that will automate some tasks I have to perform on remote servers. I am using Net::SSH::Perl to connect to these machines and getting the username and password from GUI Entry fields.

The problem is with the password. When I type the password into the entry field and send it off to Net::SSH::Perl I get an error. If I hard code the password as a string in the code everything works find. I have verified that the password is exactly the same each time.

The only thing I can think of is that for some reason the string I get from the GUI is in some kind of different format that the string I hard code. Can anyone support this theory? If so is there some way I can get the string I get from the GUI in the correct format?

In reply to String format question by choedebeck

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