Wise ones......
I have a script which uses Win32::OLE to open a specific email and grab the entire body of the text. To get the text, I use: 
my $item = $Folder->Items("Mail_being_got");
$text = $item->Body;

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When $text is then printed to a text file, the data looks exactly the same as when I cut & paste from the mail, into a text file. However when I further process the text file, strange formatting occurs (which doesn't occur with the cut & paste file.)
The problem is caused by rogue \r's next to \n's, but for some reason, I can't substitute them before writing the original file - I have to re-open the file and do extra formatting....
Anyone met this before??

In reply to Win32::OLE and outlook by Bloodelf

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