in reply to Extraneous Data in Variable

Those aren't spaces at the end of Field and Trim Length, those are newline characters. Try: 
use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1;
print Dumper $field;

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Re: Re: Extraneous Data in Variable
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 04, 2004 at 18:47 UTC
    I believe you are correct. Is there an available function to strip the carriage return from a string?
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