Re^2: Problems with binary data in text documents

perldoc -f binmode ...reading.... I am now! Thanks.

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Re^3: Problems with binary data in text documents by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 22, 2004 at 21:45 UTC
Some relevant details... If DOS/Windows encounters chr(26) in a text file, it considers that the end of the text file. binmode does not treat chr(26) specially. However, \r\n are not converted to \n in binmode. You may want to set $/ to "\015\012".	[reply]