I am very new to HTTP inside Perl. I have written a script to download a CSV file from my shopping cart website using an HTTP::Request GET. Everything works fine but there is a strange character at the end of each line that I cannot identify. I cannot just use chop on each line because it does not show up on every line. Here is my code, maybe someone can help me understand what this character is or how I can get rid of it. 

$h = new HTTP::Headers
Content_Base => '$url';
    
$h->authorization_basic($uname, $password);  
$request = HTTP::Request->new( 'GET', $url, $h ) ;

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

$count = 0;
$response = $ua->request($request);

while (!$response->is_success) {
  writelog("Failed to GET '$url': ".$response->status_line);
  sleep(30);
  $count++;
  $count < 20 or 
    die "Failed to GET '$url': ", $response->status_line;
  $response = $ua->request($request);
}

open (FH, '>orders.csv');
print FH $response->decoded_content;
close FH;

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I tried to identify the strange character with the following debug code: 
open(FH,'orders.csv') or die "$!";
while($line = <FH>) {
  $character = chop($line);
  print "!!!! $character ****\n";
}

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The output from the above debug code was:
****
****
What kind of character would cause the bangs to not be displayed?

In reply to strange character with HTTP::Request GET by sam313

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