Ok, I understand what you did there but there is more to this I think. let me show the code that reads and saves the data: 
my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET(
                   PeerAddr => $host,
                   PeerPort => $port,
                   Proto    => "tcp",)
or die "Cannot connect to PBX on address $host port $port: $!";
while (<$sock>) {
print;  # print to screen as well to show raw data and connection
chomp($_);
open(DAT,">>$filename") || die("Cannot open smdr file");
print DAT $_;
close(DAT);

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As you can see I print the string to screen before I save it to file and on the screen it looks perfect, everything lines up fine etc with no "^@" characters at all ever which makes me believe that this is not actually a string as such but some control character. That being the case do you think the code you provided will still work? I will try it and let you know.

In reply to Re^2: String manipulation by bajangerry
in thread String manipulation by bajangerry

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