Perl is not C (I'm still learning this myself)! The string tokens of \n or \r [are not | do not seem to be] C style CHAR-type data per se! Please refer to Camel book PACK and UNPACK functions for do hex-based string manipulation (pg 757 3rd edition) for yet another way to handle the problem (if you like hex strings).

Example: 
use strict;
my $cr=pack("H2",'0d');
my $lf=pack("H2",'0a');
my $lfcr=$lf.$cr;
my $ans=unpack("H4",$lfcr);
print '$lfcr=x',"$ans\n";

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This will give your your linefeed/carrage return order, BUT depending how you're reading/manipulating your data (for example with <> and chop|chomp) you may need to clean the dangling single $lf's out yourself!

Update:

Thank you Tye, I stand humbly corrected (and learned something I didn't know) about what binmode does!

In reply to Re: ActivePerl 5.6.1 Win32 munging CR/LFs by aquacade
in thread ActivePerl 5.6.1 Win32 munging CR/LFs by luma

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