D'oh! i did forget that the OS would be important. However, i did say that a sample string of numbers (of which i would get characters) is:
   12 34 79 54 2

Maybe i should have said that these characters are:
   ^L " O 6 ^B
(that is, <ctrl>-L, double quote, capital "oh", the digit 6, and <ctrl>-B)

For the record, i'm using an i686 Linux Red Hat 6.1 box. The output code could look something like:

      print map {chr} (12,34,79,54,75,8,2);

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And the input code like:
      @array = <DATA>;

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In these examples, the problem exists, and binmode has not been used.

After further testing it seems that if the character for backspace comes up in the sequence, than it deletes the previous character in the string before getting into the array, which explains some of my results. i'll be doing further testing on reading character by character to see if it resolves that issue.

Sorry for the lack of information, i think i'm kind of known for it... :-{

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jynx

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