Macho Monks,

My Perl script is outputting a text string to an MS Office app running on the user's PC, almost always under Windows. The document opens just fine, but I cannot get line breaks where I want them.

I've tried:

$part_1 = "foo";
$part_2 = "bar"

print $part_1."\n".$part_2;
print $part_1."\r".$part_2;
print $part_1."\n\n".p$art_2;
print $part_1."\r\n".$part_2;
print $part_1."\r\r".$part_2;
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If I pass $part_1 and $part_2 to Ms Office through an html form and use VBA within the file to assemble the lines using

Text = part_1 + Chr$(CharCode:=13) + part_2
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it works just fine, I get the line break I want. So I tried in PErl

$cr = 13;
print $part_1.chr($cr).$part_2;
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but still no luck.

What's the trick to insert a Windows line break into an output text stream?

Thanks.