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Changing the double quotes to single quotes in the hardcoded string has no effect. The hardcoded string still succeeds. The read from the file still fails. Is there a way to expose control characters? Perhaps I can use od on the file. Thanks for your reply. Corwin

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Re^3: Unable to resolve links...
by aquarium (Curate) on Nov 07, 2010 at 22:45 UTC
    on unix/linux/cygwin you can "cat -vet filename" to see special characters. control characters will show up as carret ^ followed by a capital letter.
    the hardest line to type correctly is: stty erase ^H
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