in reply to Weird underscore/whitespace failing regex

I'm not sure, if I understand correctly, but please send us hex dump of the file (e.g. with hd -C file on Linux). Then it will be evident what mysterious bytes live under your text.

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Re^2: Weird underscore/whitespace failing regex
by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 12, 2009 at 22:40 UTC

    Since we're dealing with a var, 

    use Data::Dumper qw( Dumper );
$Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1;
print(Dumper($str));

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    use Devel::Peek qw( Dump );
Dump($str);

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