Good stuff, igelkott.

Thanks a million for your help! I'll spend some more time wondering just how the \r got in there.

Just out of curiosity - could it have crept in due to any of my Linux or text editor settings - or maybe even character encodings? I checked for the obvious (to me) editor settings in KWrite but could not spot any pointers to Windows formats there.
Also, the file did not get routed through the network at any point in time ... oh, wait a minute: I did send a copy of it via uuencode. Would that have done anything to the original file? Probably not ...

Cheers -

Pat

In reply to Re^4: Why does my Perl regex substitution for linebreak fail? by pat_mc
in thread Why does my Perl regex substitution for linebreak fail? by pat_mc

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