in reply to adding non printable characters in perl's print function
A quick way to check your output to see everything you put in comes out is to use the 'od' command (on any unix-like box):
perl -e 'print ":Hello ^M world:\n"' | od -cThis will give you
0000000 : H e l l o \r w o r l d : \n--
Lyon
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