Hi, this is in regards to Re^10: file open in perl tk, where a file being read in, is not being properly displayed in a Tk::Text widget. I sure it is an encoding issue, but I can't quite see what to do.

Simply, I have a file, I create test1.txt

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it's hex view is (minus the f)

31 0A 32 0A | 33 0A 34 0A | 35 0A 36 0A | 37 0A 38 0A | 39 0A 61 0A | 
+62 0A 63 0A | 64 0A 65 0A         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d
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Now when I run this thru the following program, the Tk Text widget inserts an unwanted space

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;
use Tk::FileSelect;
use Encode;
use utf8;

my $mw = MainWindow->new;

$mw->configure( -background => 'black', -foreground => 'white' );
$mw->geometry( "400x100" );
$mw->title( "Multiple Windows Test" );

my $button1 = $mw->Button(
   -text       => "view Results",
   -background => "cyan",
   -command    => \&button1_sub
)->pack( -side => "right" );

$mw->Button( -text => "Exit", -command => sub { exit } )
 ->pack( -side => "bottom" );

MainLoop; 


sub button1_sub {
   my $subwin1 = $mw->Toplevel;
   $subwin1->geometry( "500x400" );
   $subwin1->title( "Sub Window #1" );
 
   my $fh;
   open( $fh, '<', "./test1.txt" ) or die $!;
   my @contents = <$fh>;
   print "@contents\n";
   close( $fh );

  my $sublable = $subwin1->Scrolled( 'Text', -scrollbars => 'osoe', )-
+>pack;
  $sublable->insert( 'end', "@contents" );

 my $subwin_button = $subwin1->Button(
      -text    => "Close window",
      -command => sub {$subwin1 => 'destroy'}
    )->pack( -side => "bottom" ); 
}
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The Tk::Text output has an extra space inserted,

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Additionally, if I un-quote "@contents" in the insert

 $sublable->insert( 'end', @contents );
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I get this strange output

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It is very cold in my camp, and my brain can't quite figure out what is happening? Thanks. :-)

Update, I see a similar answer was given in Re^2: File contents are not displaying in Perl tk, where

$sublable->insert( 'end', $_ ) for @contents ;
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works well. But there still is some strange behavior there.