I'm reading a very long html file in and concatenating it into a very long string. The FRONT of the file gets truncated! The code couldn't be simpler: 
# call as: ConvertFindLaw.pl PilotLifeFindLaw.htm  
use 5.010;
use Switch;
use strict;
my $wholeFile;
my $INPUT_FILE = shift; 
my $FH; 
open(FH, $INPUT_FILE) or die "Bad $INPUT_FILE: $!"; ;
foreach my $line (<FH>) { # print $line; # All lines printed
# chomp $line; # this makes no difference to the problem
$wholeFile .= $line; }  # Build a long string
close(FH);
print $wholeFile; # front truncated here

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If I print the lines in the loop (commented out above) they are coming in as expected. When I print $wholeFile after the loop, only the last quarter or so of the file appears. The FRONT is somehow lopped off, in the middle of a plain text string. Any idea how this could happen?

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