in reply to Getting STDIN and writing to a file

This works just fine on my system (XP Home), same perl.
I'd rather change 
print FILE "$record\n";

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to 
print FILE "$record";

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unless that is on purpose, as $record will normally be terminated with a newline.

Cheers,
PerlingTheUK

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