Re^3: Attempting to fill a hash

Your file has most likely been written on Windows, and you're reading it on Unix... You could run

$ perl -i.bak -pe 's/\r$//' your-wordlist.file
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to remove the extraneous carriage returns.

Alternatively, filter the file through the crlf PerlIO layer when reading it (as it does happen on Windows by default), i.e.

open my $wordhandle, "<:crlf", $wordfile or die ...
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Re^4: Attempting to fill a hash by chrism01 (Friar) on Jun 06, 2008 at 05:22 UTC
Or use the 'dos2unix' util on most Unix like systems	[reply]
Re^4: Attempting to fill a hash by TwistedTransistor (Novice) on Jun 06, 2008 at 02:23 UTC
thank you, that fixed it all, once again I appreciate everyones help in pointing out where my code needed fixing up / rearranging, and for that tip on removing unwanted carriage returns. :-)	[reply]