Have anyone experienced the problem like this one? Look at the script and string I have in $msg: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $msg = '1324^@^@^@';
my $lng = length($msg);
print "The length of the message is: $lng\n";
print "This is the message itself: [$msg]\n";

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When I execute it, I get the following: 
cdruser1@cdr1:~/cdr/scripts> ./test1.pl 
The length of the message is: 7
This is the message itself: [1324]

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The problem is with those characters ^@^@^@. When I print those characters, I can't see nothing! However, the length, as you see, includes them. What I really want to do is to get rid of them from my string, but I am not sure what to use in substitution command. By the way, those characters in Windows are printed as spaces.

In reply to Weird characters' issue by rimvydazas

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